Status Quo : Spare Parts ( 1998 Remaster )

Spare Parts

 is the second album

 by the English

 rock band

 Status Quo

 and the final one

 in the psychedelic vein. 

It is also the first in which

 the group's roadie 

Bob Young

 began writing 

and co-writing songs 

for and with the band.

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 

in UK singles charts.

The album was released in 

September 1969 

but wasn't a 

commercial success.

Following the

 disappointment of the album,

 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.

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