Spare Parts (album)

Spare Parts
Studio album by Status Quo
Released	26 September 1969[1]
Recorded	January–September 1969
Studio	Pye Studios, London
Genre	Psychedelic rock psychedelic pop
Length	41:50
Label	Pye
Producer	John Schroeder
Status Quo chronology
Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo (1968) Spare Parts (1969) Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon (1970)
Singles from Status Quo
"Are You Growing Tired of My Love" Released: 25 April 1969

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Spare Parts is the second studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, and their final one in the psychedelic vein. It is the first in which the group's roadie Bob Young wrote and co-wrote songs for and with the band. Released in September 1969, it was not a commercial success.

The album covers a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, "You're Just What I Was Looking for Today". Only one song was slated for a single release. This was the Anthony King–written song "Are You Growing Tired of My Love", backed with the Alan Lancaster composition "So Ends Another Life". Released in April 1969, it reached no. 46 on the UK singles charts.

Following the album's disappointing reception, the band released a non-album single – the Everly Brothers' "The Price of Love", also released in September 1969, with the Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt composition "Little Miss Nothing" as the B-side.