Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is the first hit single by British rock band The Status Quo. It was released on 5 January 1968. It was released on 5 January 1968. [ 6 ]
The album's lead single was originally intended to be "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café", with the original song by singer/lead guitarist Francis Rossi, "Pictures of Matchstick Men", as the B-side, but these songs were eventually swapped. It reached No. 7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the US, where it reached No. 12.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Arjen Lucassen (from the Dutch project Ayreon) covered "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" and "Ice in the Sun" on his solo album Strange Hobby. Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz recorded a cover version of "Pictures of Matchstick Men", on his 1985 solo album Seeing Eye Gods. German power metal band Helloween covered "Rain" for their single "Power".
Pictures – 40 Years of Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Status Quo, and was released on 10 November 2008.The album was available as a standard double CD, a double CD+DVD deluxe edition, and the four-CD earbook boxset, containing the single versions of all 76 Status Quo singles (including five singles in collaboration with other acts) from 1968 to 2008 inclusive, housed in ...
[3] [2] The band is best known for its cover of the Status Quo song "Pictures of Matchstick Men" from the Key Lime Pie LP and its original composition "Take the Skinheads Bowling," from the band's 1985 debut LP, Telephone Free Landslide Victory which was later featured in the Michael Moore movie Bowling for Columbine.
Fichter played only on the tracks "Opening Theme", "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "Flowers," although she sings harmony vocals on a few other tracks and appears on the record's cover. On the tour for the album, the band was also joined by steel guitarist / mandolinist /guitarist David Immerglück , a member of CVB's side project Monks of Doom .
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is a cover version of the Status Quo song from 1968. Track listing. 7" (R 6558) No. Title Length; 1. "Bad Ambassador" ...