"Mean Girl" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 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 Chart (1973)Peakposition
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