Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men (1968)

[@TheRausing1]

That Riff is just so hypnotic, powerful, strange, memorable, captivating... once you’ve heard it you can’t forget it.

[@theotrost3155]

compare: Vanilla Fudge: "You Keep me Hangin On."

[@kernewek2926]

Very true. I really like both songs

[@papadopp3870]

I remember this being a top. 20 hit in 67 or 68. Seems like it was the last anyone in America heard of them. Thirty years later, in UK we found out about their immensely cool body of music. It was amazing. They were still playing, too. I heard there is an autobio from them I’d like to get!

[@jimbohi3648]

Super earworm love it love it love it someone has to cover this song dude

[@jimbohi3648]

Foo fighters would be my first suggestion to do it

[@newhotman1001]

My girlfriend was playing this record in 1968 at her house and her mother thought the stereo was broken. We still laugh about it today. Great song and was true psychedelic .

[@Shamwilder]

That's so funny 🤣

[@mikejooste1658]

😂😂 I was 13 yrs old and loved it. My friend played guitar and piano. One of the first songs he played.

[@adalineproulx9773]

Why did she think it was broken? It doesnt sound that way.

[@randyhumphries481]

Ok boomer

[@eratic0311]

@@adalineproulx9773 it’s bc of the flanging. nobody knew what the hell it was back in the days.

[@davidben-sun1040]

I'm 74, heard this song in the 60's really liked it then, still do.

[@Ross-kd2fw]

@@davidben-sun1040 Some music during that time period was just too incredible! San Francisco Girls, Hot Smoke and Sassafrase, Question of Temperature, I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night and Incense and Peppermints. Hearing it the first time on the radio, that was the best part!

[@aldostefanini1392]

Best part is you can repeat it 5 times and not get tired of it. That just shows you it's a timeless song

[@bigkev111111]

My brother repeated that riff so many times on his guitar that one day our mother grabbed the guitar out of his hands and smashed it over our back fence.

[@aldostefanini1392]

@@bigkev111111 your mother didn't have taste in music 🤣🤣🤣

[@annabanana2621]

@@bigkev111111 hahahaha I would expect her to grab it and start playing the riff by herself after so many times she listened to it 😂😂😅😅

[@DonRamiro1]

@@bigkev111111 Long-Haired Hare n' shit...

[@chipsramek3868]

@@bigkev111111 I smell BS.

[@CaneFu]

For those of us who were old enough to enjoy this song when it first came out in 1968 it left an impression on us that will always be there. Whenever I want to remember the late sixties I listen to this song and all the memories come rushing back along with everyone who was in my life at that time. It's the closest thing to a time machine that there is.

[@dmitry1549]

А я словно жил в то время. Хотя родился в 1991 году. :)) В СССР и когда я иду по старому району своего провинциального города состоящего из 5 этажных советских домов. Сразу думаю, эти дома помнят эту музыку, они родились в то время. Не смотря на то, что такая музыка была в нашей стране запрещена. :)))))

[@patsmith36]

@@dmitry1549 happy my grandfather escaped Russia and came to the US a long time ago

[@ihavehadenough8772]

@@patsmith36 and the way things are going... the whole World is being run by psychopaths...and any freedom is long gone...Time to change the guard

[@revrotunda3206]

@@ihavehadenough8772 I always thought many years ago, the way things are going we may have to flee this Country like our forefathers did. Now this shit is global.

[@berzerker1100]

@@revrotunda3206 Lawd have 🥺 Mercy ! 🙏 It's getting Bad 🤧

[@AndreiTãtaruknowledgeWindows]

One of the best psychedelic songs ever. 😍❤️🥰

[@grahampearson5670]

I would agree.

[@AndreiTãtaruknowledgeWindows]

@@grahampearson5670 🕊️✌️ 🤝

[@AndreiTãtaruknowledgeWindows]

Pictures of matchstick men... 🎵

[@psychedeli_]

Here here,

[@bernardkelly-m6g]

These Guys have been accused of being really nice guys also.Peace.

[@camelia9802]

Superb lyrics. Superb music. We shall never see days like the sixties again 😢 flared trousers, flower power and free love.

[@chipsramek3868]

You forgot ... Windowpane ... Black Beauties ...etc. etc..

[@caiusmadison2996]

Nope, the damn suits in power now, inspired by this music same as any of us at the time, went on to double down the totalitarian tactics. Look around you, hippies became the worst mothers to wear a crown ever. Let that sink in. So far from what this song meant, it's sad.

[@alienPear]

...and the consolidation of the worst economic-political system: Democratic Capitalism.

[@zoki-kj3ox]

This is amazing masterpiece. Ahead of they time! RIP Rick Parfitt! 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@joegongora2200]

The time when things were…Far-Out!!! I’m glad I lived through the 60’s and 70’s. Music 🎵 will never be great as this again.

[@peternicholls6532]

Never was a big fan of Status Quo but absolutely love this song... one of my all time favourite songs.

[@mickeybaumann]

me too !

[@jacquihall6169]

What an awesome vibe. The 60s had some great artists and classic songs that will live on. Groovy baby.

[@ursseiler1552]

That guitar riff does it for me. This is maybe the most beautiful song ever. Hymn of my youth.

[@takisbaltas1242]

Mine too! I was 10 years old!

[@509Heavydrop]

@@takisbaltas1242 me three, with my transistor radio 👍😝👊🤩

[@rkooyers]

Did you have a 'hair helmet' like them?

[@garyfletcher844]

Beautiful is not the word for it. How about Love by John Lennon

[@calista910]

I'm 17, hymn of mine as well!

[@tommyrogers6841]

When my brother came back from Vietnam he had many great albums and Status Quo was one of them and I was hooked after the first listen 😎🇺🇸

[@greasyflight6609]

Very Cool ...

[@barneyronnie]

Glad your brother (and me) made it home😊

[@tommyrogers6841]

Thank you for your service I had two brothers and a cousin in Vietnam my cousin got killed two weeks in country by a sniper. I was blessed that my two older brothers made it back home.

[@airforceveteran71]

Status Quo, Steppenwolf, Beatles, Arthur Brown, Mason Williams, Stones, Lemon Pipers, Doors..still remember 1968 like yesterday.

[@catkin3]

Totally Absolutely Definitely

[@filiprazik6860]

Old school rock is always the best rock

[@patricks.4491]

I remember also and im Born in 1997

[@QueenFan12]

Great year!

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

I was born in 1968. My Mom died young at the age of 54 in early 2001 ... I never got much from her in terms of what was the social conscious, popular / favorite foods, dress, music she enjoyed, her feelings and views on politics and the Vietnam war, and just her general attitude, feelings and personality from this period in her life in 1968 when she was very young 23 years old. I find myself constantly searching for her voice in the movies and music and anything I can find from popular culture from 1968. It's incredibly sad to me that she never saw the value in spending just a few hours with me once in awhile talking about this time in her life or her life in general. I feel grateful for the life given to me but at the same time, empty that the door to these questions is forever closed.

[@Vivelabretagnelibre]

we'll never hear such great songs again...'60s rules !!!

[@Vichedges]

Everyone says that about songs from their youth.

[@Joopsmann]

Never? I’m hearing it now...

[@allanrobbins1998]

With you all the way

[@manchild3479]

with you all the way...............

[@77Keith]

I would turn 12 years old in Oct. of 68, my God that was good music!

[@jenniferjones3273]

I have always loved this song! 1968 was an incredible year!

[@kevins1852]

1968 was when everything came together-- and fell apart

[@doninmichigan]

I was 12 years old and yes indeed, 1968 was an incredible year!

[@larryjones2320]

I also lived that “wonderful time to be alive” and experience those GREAT years.❤❤❤ It was a music evolution like no other.

[@RockHoward]

I was 12 as well growing up in the deep south. Sadly there were many lows to match the highs but certainly it was an exhilarating time to wake up to the world.

[@brucebooher2288]

What an amazing time capsule. The hair, cloths, dancers. I was 15 and loved this one.

[@doylenova9934]

Yep! I was 14!✌

[@denisekerr7287]

I was 12 and I remember it as tho it was yesterday.

[@doninmichigan]

​@@denisekerr7287 me too, I was 12!

[@kevinmyles6369]

Brill track! One of my fave Quo ones. Stands the test of time really well after 55 years imo!👍👍

[@angelaandersons7918]

Shut up, no way is this amazing song 55 years young x that's bananas

[@katejacobs363]

They came to our school and played for our school dance just before this got high in the charts, I was thirteen and Francis Rossi was good friends with my friend's brother. It was an all girls school and they had to change in the girls changing room, they were lovely, best school dance for miles around!

[@apicione]

That was a period of absolute great music.

[@bobthebear1246]

One of the greatest songs ever. And this was a very young Status Quo hitting it huge right out of the gate with this amazing song. R.I.P. Rick Parfitt.

[@ludoctavia]

Rick Parfitt died today December 24th 2016.... I remember this song when I was 12 and I loved it. Bless his soul! RIP.

[@blossom1929]

I was 17

[@Chris-gl8oz]

@@QuandaliuskrispingtonXIX I think your a bit confused

[@CLAelev1]

I was 11 when I first heard this in SoCal. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing!

[@GGE47]

I was 21.

[@barneyronnie]

He's with those matchstick men now😮.

[@markbrock4170]

This is a brilliant tune! One has to love the simplicity of the lead guitar parts with the relentless vocals. Totally hooked with catchy riffs.

[@Diamond-wk7wz]

To anyone, who knows Status Quo nowadays, I love you so much!!

[@carmencita.k]

I was too young to remember it at the time,but absolutely love it!! What a song!! It gives me Goosebumps!!

[@miltonsmith974]

Love this song. Brings back great memories of a time when my generation was the "young" generation clamoring for all those changes. Our music was often experimental and innovative. Much of the music from that time began to move away from the traditional "boy-meets-girl" love songs to music with messages that demanded to be heard. Yep, seems like yesterday. A little advice for young people today: enjoy youth while you have it. It passes by in a hurry. Peace.

[@helmutbrugmann2337]

Best Song ever from S.Q.

[@DonRamiro1]

It does indeed.

[@johndaltroff2241]

Been listening to status quo while riding my mountain bike lately, love their 60's psychedelic sound.

[@brucewayne3602]

perennial brilliance ....................

[@marcosgaleiras6060]

What groovy sound, this tune is so 60's and cool. I still have the 45 rpm from those days...

[@christophercleary6780]

Status Quo made so many great albums and songs. Although they sold a couple of hundred million records, they've got to be the most underrated rock band ever. RIP Rick, and thank you so very much.

[@rokyericksonroks]

Christopher Cleary We're losing all these great musicians and they cannot be replaced.

[@rschortinghuis5452]

Underrated? Only perhaps in the US but mostly in Europe bij snobs...Quo rule

[@tsfurlan]

Actually a 1 hit wonder... If they had more great songs we would know of them.

[@TheMusicalElitist]

@@tsfurlan my word, you’re an ignorant fool

[@SGW4K]

@@tsfurlan Maybe in your neck of the woods friend but the world is a big place. Broaden your mind.

[@hoola7365]

Amazing how happy they look compared to modern singers performing

[@greghawkman]

They are smiling at all the beautiful girls. No gender confusion in those days.

[@lenini056]

@@greghawkman If you wanna blame for gender confusion, then the hippie generation takes it. They're the ones that encouraged all this. If you want a generation that fits you, it's the 50s.

[@Phelps-1247]

@@lenini056 nah that's definitely more 70s or 80s

[@maxturgidson568]

Pretty sure that’s mostly just a requirement of the show… along with lip syncing the song and faking playing it. The keyboardist ain’t ha in it and the drummer is making a mockery of it.

[@Bella-fz9fy]

He's singing live.You can hear when he laughs.

[@Antonocon]

This came out about 12 years before I was born. The 60s seemed liked another Universe compared to the 80s. I even felt this when I was young. I loved all the music from it but it always seemed like it was such a different time. Now I look back on 2010 from 2022 and it doesn't seem incredibly different. Kind of the exact same just with Moore's law progressing us ever closer to a totalitarian technocracy. Anyway, I absolutely loved this song from the first time I heard it,.

[@benji274]

Still one of their best ever songs

[@amandajstar]

You mean there are others? Blimey.

[@321reh]

Riding Around with My Older sister(I was 10 at the Time) Hearing This Song On The Radio in 68!! Brings Back Some GROOVY MEMORIES!!!! What a Masterpiece!!!!!

[@denzilite]

Did you actually ride your sister? Give her one for The Quo?

[@shelterdoghandler]

I was floored when I first herd this all those years ago. I still am. the bass just sent me away. very close to a perfect song. love it 48 years later.

[@REDCOATKILL3R]

I'm 28. I listen to this song all the time

[@CatMom17]

This was the first single I ever bought with my hard earned babysitting money. I was 12. Still an awesome song.

[@michaelbruns449]

Psychedelic masterpieces, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, Journey To The Center Of The Mind, I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, Over Under Sideways Down, 2,000 Light Years From Home, See Emily Play, Purple Haze, I Am The Walrus, Sunshine Of Your Love, ect ect on and on like wow, what a musical time to be young and alive.

[@Christianonbass]

Songs like this one are the soundtrack of my early childhood.

[@lauranicholls9421]

Words cannot express how fantastic this song is 🎵🎶❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@Benya-d9j]

60s psychedelia produced some extremely haunting and affective songs..it was a time that will probably never be repeated but can be remembered through these kind of songs.

[@hbrit92]

Great song! I grew up watching TOTP. Shame they can't edit out Jimmy Saville.

[@BillyJango]

He appears everywhere the creepy fucker.

[@NetanyahuWarCriminal]

Good god. That was my first reaction clicking on this video. I second that.

[@dylanevans2498]

Even then Savile (NB just the one L) was being extremely passive-aggresive by leaning on that poor guy - I'd have told him to f*** off and stand up like a normal man. Now of course we know he was very detached from normal.

[@theresaurus9820]

@@dylanevans2498Jimmy was actually a super nice guy in private. You just needed to get to know him and you’d realize he was just a big teddy bear. ❤

[@Phelps-1247]

​@@theresaurus9820a big pedo bear

[@jameslevens2121]

This song was part of a compilation set of 2 CDs, featuring a total of 60 songs from the 1960s. I bought the set in Sheffield in June 2009 (after enjoying a long bus journey between Rotherham and Sheffield. Yes, it can be done!). So I listen to this song to remind myself of that very enjoyable day and that very enjoyable bus journey. Oh, trust me to forget this: the song is really good, too!

[@timkeagy4094]

As I approach 60, I can still remember when this song came out. I was just 9 and can still picture my dad and I driving in his Fairlane with this song cranked. It sounded real good with a little weed as I got older too. Still sounds good with that weed.

[@garyfletcher844]

Me too. I am almost exactly your age. 09/24/1959

[@catkin3]

Even without!!

[@josephgoulet3706]

You should of rolled up a fatty n passed err ta daddy

[@larryoconnor7094]

Weed? You fookin' loser.

[@barneyronnie]

I used to buy weed off your Dad, Tim. Small world!!

[@malcooool]

my 1st and all time fave song from the qou. RIP RICK

[@janemackie8334]

Mal Barker c

[@romanblabla8427]

Mal Barker, me too......

[@albertsmith1048]

18 when this came out, the music of my youth, how I long for those days to be relived, women, beer and great music.

[@moacirescritor3591]

Que rock pesado para o ano de 1968. Muito bom e música bonita com um arranjo perfeito.

[@ricking5825]

Saw tribute band State Of Quo perform this track, absolutely brilliant, best song Status Quo did IMO.

[@mrjohn1964]

Unbelievable testemonial of a unjustifiably forgotten era. Status Quo had born in such a wonderful psych style.

[@matsboris]

A magnificent song. I saw Status Quo in 2006 in HMH and they were still cracking good.

[@francoisbellefeuille1393]

A very unique song which to me depicts perfectly the great psychedelic 60's era. Very different than their usual stuff but their best song in my humble opinion.

[@celty234]

This song has been stuck in my head lately for some reason. Enjoyed this, never seen it before. Thanks and now maybe I'll stop hearing it in my head. Smile.

[@alienígena1950]

Tinha 18 anos. Tempos que não voltam nunca mais, há quase 60 anos atrás. Quanta saudade.

[@christopherhowe4947]

undoubtedly their best song

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Quo do a fair mix of bland 'easy listening' and stuff like this... :)

[@mrmurph5046]

It's the ONLY thing they're "famous" for here in the US of A (actually 99.999% of the population would say "who"? Just another local-bar, cover band.

[@dannylewington2605]

MP Pk american music mostly sucks ass, the great american songbook and jazz/swing music is just a fucking awful noise

[@fransciscoau]

What difference does that point make? That unless Americans know who you are you are somehow inferior? America is not the world my friend.

[@mrmurph5046]

+Danny Lewington That's why brits (and everyone else) are always copying what Americans have already done in almost any field, including music. Riiiiighht!

[@Katherine-L789]

I LOVE this song!! Brings me back everytime!! ❤

[@hankwilts8725]

Who would think I would be enjoying this in 2019. I was 2 when this came out.

[@Saltywheel]

hank wilts 2019

[@colingoddard6537]

Did not realise status quo did this song until now lol

[@andiemorgan961]

Good songs never go out of fashion. 😁

[@carlh429]

Ha...I was 3!

[@timheathfield2261]

@@carlh429 I was 7 great quo still playing same 4 cords and long may that continue!

[@carolechenowith900]

Still my favorite song at 70 :) 68 was a very good year.

[@benjaminreece690]

Yes it was their best song ever, this song never gets old!!!

[@willieboyce2973]

im 70 now I Rememberthe 60s as if it was last week most wonderful time ive ever had I was in London i65-66 14 month im as I sai 70 but going on 19 xx

[@llwyde1104]

Best way to be...stay young.

[@WOODR52]

great song, heard it on the radio in 68, i was 15. still have it on 4 track .

[@petnoble956]

This music will never die

[@karenbroadhurst7302]

Absolutely love this song by status quo truly awesome love rockchick Karen xxxxxx 🇬🇧🥁🎹🎸🎤🎶❤️🥰😍😘

[@robertsmith4519]

I started work when this came out and still love it to bits 💥

[@carlfryer3392]

i was only five when this was in the charts . i can only just remember this one . pure gold still to this day and forever . rock on boys .

[@nightlion3822]

was für verrückte musik,,was eine geile zeit.....sowas gibt es heute nicht mehr!!!

[@evanoffm]

Love this music, amazing guitar sounds and general feel

[@TheJust22az]

Pictures of Matchstick Men was one of my all time favorites.

[@joegongora2200]

Not only Psychedelic but powerful and hypnotic as well. The Satus Quo certainly Knocked this out of the Ballpark. 1968 was a great year because it became a turning point in my life. With music 🎼 changing and the 1970’s soon approaching things for me wouldn’t be the same. But I got through it by listening 👂 to great music 🎶 such as this. Satus Quo if you’re still performing out there…Guys Keep On Rocking!!!”

[@Memale2009]

I was born in a good era !!!!!!!!!!!!! I love my sixties!

[@williamrobinson1643]

Me too...and the late fifties!

[@sandsoftime1954]

Me too ! from the early 50s' up to the year 2000 . LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT !

[@williamrobinson1643]

..still rockin" !!

[@Memale2009]

Me too! (Moi aussi!)

[@rangvi1956]

ME TOO ! I'm 60 and still rocking !!! Jihaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@sonjar1853]

Crazy sexy melody, and guitar work, and lyrics, and everything!! OMG!!

[@rogersundfors3363]

Used to listen to this song when I was 12 in 1968 and still love it...

[@MrMallorcaboy]

what a great song so distinctive for that period of time

[@balopra]

Pure Magic, outa this world! Masterpiece.

[@josemarecos3186]

Espectacular los status quo...joseph from paraguay....love music...60 s

[@Elo90210]

Imagine hearing this for the first time ever, crazy. - (in the 60’s on a radio, I can never imagine hearing a song now (2022) that could be this different to people back then with this type of music.) I’m sure someone knows what I mean lol

[@mikesmith2057]

Gary Numan? Sex Pistols? Boy George? Sugarhill Gang? Public Enemy? NWA? Girl Talk?

[@BlankUberEverybody]

When I look up to the sky I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow I rush home to bed, I sunk my head I see your face underneath my pillow I wake next morning, tired still yawning See your face come peeking through my window Pictures of matchstick men and you Images of matchstick men and you All I ever see is them and you Windows echo your reflection When I look in their direction gone When will this haunting stop Your face, it just won't leave me alone Pictures of… You in the sky, you with the sky You make me cry, your eyes You in the sky, you with the sky You make me cry, your eyes

[@DanielKatzel]

one of the coolest mono-tone psych tunes ever - the guitar interplay is simple genius ! Have loved it since I first heard it in '69 in first grade...

[@gilbertoantoniomartins1323]

In 1968 I was 12 y.o....Now in my 67'......All I can say is ...Thank you 4 post this and to bring us back......To the Past...when good music was so good.....and made we love.... worship'em even more.....today

[@richardhowarth1734]

Just a shame that Jimmy Saville presented the track. I worshipped the guy as a child. Not happy now. Superb track, says everything about the sixties. Genius.

[@venderstrat]

Just ignore him and enjoy the song.

[@757Watson]

I was wondering if that was Jimmy!

[@eddybagwell]

I was born in 1984... I wish I was alive in the 60s to be able to enjoy the music back then and none of the rubbish that we get today!

[@beantownratt]

Wow, I never saw this video before. The sound of the Wawa pedal and spaced out faces remind me of Tommy James and the shondells when they did Crystal Blue Persuasion. I miss this music.

[@JPLowe]

This is a defining song for that time, can’t believe they existed at the same time as Shakespeare 🙌🏽

[@Nickirkpatrick]

One of the most under rated songs and baselines ever

[@theeasybeats5913]

I remember singing this song while riding around in my boat in Florida

[@LMHS63]

We never listened to this unless we were stoned, ah 1968 in the USA....if you weren't there you missed it all. What a time to be 23 and single.

[@johnburakowski61]

Fkn A !

[@kvernon1]

Listening to this meant I knew what it felt like to be stoned without actually taking the drugs, or dealing with the fallout!

[@jamesk1027]

kvernon1 what fallout! Drugs are good.

[@JockoJonson17]

This is awesome stoned or not. 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@miltonsmith974]

@@jamesk1027 Wish you would elaborate on your statement "drugs are good." Can't tell if you are serious or not. I have some friends who got hooked on some of the highly addictive stuff and very much regretted it later. Expensive and depressing habit that messed some of them up BAD. One took his life while high. We've all heard the stories of people who turned to crime in an attempt to help support an expensive drug habit. "Drugs are good?" Sorry, just can't endorse such a broad, all-inclusive statement as this.

[@MM9436]

we are older now, but we had the best music, in the sixties 😍😇👆

[@TheBimmer74]

Loved this song growing up. Love it still today!

[@greyhamlogan2255]

Possibly one of the most recognisable opening guitar rifts

[@DPRyan-vd5pp]

🤔 I think more people would recognize “Smoke on the water” over this song….I asked everyone at work if they ever heard of status quo and they said no…even my mom who was in high school in 1969 doesn’t remember them!

[@larcon19]

You NEVER EVER hear great music like this anymore.

[@Metal-Possum]

You're looking in all the wrong places then. I bet your parents and grandparents said the same old nonsense about the music they had growing up too.

[@nancyaiken5732]

Isn’t that the truth!! I’m glad I was there to live it.

[@intradibles]

Screw you boomer, you're about to trigger a generational crisis. #TheFourthTurning

[@TheMusicalElitist]

In your opinion, boomer.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

Don't listen to pop, dumba$$ (yt censorship). There are great modern rock bands. You just gotta turn off the advertiser friendly radio and look underground. Mother Mother: Reaper Man, Give Me Back The Night, Latter Days

[@hitpaydirtwithkdirt]

I was born 20 years after this was released, but even with all the electronic music out there this the trippiest song ever.

[@curibyyt8353]

this song reminds me of may last year. A Ukrainian boy had come to my school because he had escaped from the war. He has always been a person who made me feel good, I don't know what I would do without him. The thing I most remembered from our first date was this weird ringtone he had, a song I'd never heard. And this was it. I haven't heard it since he bought a new phone in the end of the last summer. I was very upset and hearing it again made me jump back a year. I hope to spend 100 summers like that with him, I love him so much.

[@dietern.1160]

I saw and hear this for the first time, it's genius

[@jackflash5659]

I had to come here to the video of one of my favorite songs to offer my condolences to the family and friends of Alan Lancaster, co-founder and bassist of Status Quo. "When I look up to the sky I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow" Thank you for the great music. RIP Alan.

[@deirdreohanlon3704]

my favourite quo song. Rick. R.I.P. Thanks for the music.

[@dhollerbach1]

That song is bad ass. I was 7 years old when this video was done. Love the psychedelic sixties!

[@cynthiakanner1590]

Imprinted on my brain in the late 60's...

[@johnmacdonald650]

Love the trips from back in the day

[@viggolundbech3604]

I was 13 years old when i listen to Status Quo first time,and i still listen to the music from them.They are the best band ever.

[@Femalecommaman]

In the 2009 live version of this song, the guys are *both* playing *AWESOME Pre-CBS, Fender Telecasters!!* Those bad boys are worth *bucks up* now!!

[@viggolundbech3604]

I WAS 13 YEARS OLD WHEN I HEAR STATUS QUO FIRST TIME,I LOVE THEM AND I MISS THEM

[@S-T-E-V-E]

This song came on in a documentary and I said to my mate, guess who played this, he said 'this is amazing who is it?' I said Status Quo and he wouldn't believe me, I had to look it up and prove it to him!

[@robkrentz7153]

Status quo is awesome with those incredible guitar licks pictures of matchstick men Rocks the House 1968 Rules and the keyboards.

[@michaelcummingsherrera1232]

I have enjoyed reading other people's comments on where they were or what they were doing when this song came out. I was in South Vietnam and remember hearing this song all the time while I was in Cu Chi. Then two of our brigades were flown north in the Phu Bai-Hue area. The 1968 Tet Offensive broke out shortly thereafter. I associate this song and others like, Green Tambourine, by the Lemon Pipers with Tet. While I had bad memories for many years, listening to these songs, I am over it and see them for what they are, just good old British rock 'n roll.

[@michaelcummingsherrera1232]

@Truth Reigns Forever Tapadh Leat! (Thank you!)