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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Mean Girl
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Status Quo
| album = Dog of Two Head
| B-side = Everything
| released =
| recorded = 1971
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Hard rock
| length =
| label = Pye Records
| writer = Francis Rossi
Bob Young
| producer = John Schroeder
| prev_title = Paper Plane
| prev_year = 1972
| next_title = Gerdundula
| next_year = 1973
| misc =
}}
"'Mean Girl'" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo on 22 February 1973. It was taken from their November 1971 album 'Dog of Two Head'.
Pye Records released the song more than a year after the album, following the success of the single "Paper Plane", released in November 1972 on the Vertigo label. It became a UK Top 20 hit previously only three of the ten Pye singles had made the Top 20. They tried this again with the single "Gerdundula", another track from the same album, but it failed to chart.
The band included the song in the set for their 2009 Glastonbury Festival debut.
Singles
* 1973: "Mean Girl" (Rossi/Young) (3.53) / "Everything" (Rossi/Parfitt) (2.35) Vinyl 7", Pye: 7N 45229, United Kingdom
* 1973: "Mean Girl" / "Tune to the Music", Vinyl 7", Pye: 12 661 AT, Germany
* 1978: "Mean Girl" / "In My Chair", Vinyl 7", Pye: 7N 46095, United Kingdom
* 1986: "Mean Girl" / "Technicolour Dreams", Vinyl 7", BR / 45096, Netherlands
Personnel
* Francis Rossi - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, lead vocals
* Rick Parfitt - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, backing vocals
* Alan Lancaster - bass, guitar
* John Coghlan - drums, percussion
* Bruce Foster - piano
Charts
References
Category:Status Quo (band) songs
Category:1973 singles
Category:Songs written by Francis Rossi
Category:Songs written by Bob Young (musician)
Category:1971 songs
Category:Pye Records singles
Category:Song recordings produced by John Schroeder (musician)
Category:British hard rock songs
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