Under the Influence is the twenty-third studio album by English rock band Status Quo, released in 1999. To date it is the last album featuring new songs written by Francis Rossi together with Bernie Frost, as Rossi re-established his 1970s songwriting partnership with Bob Young afterwards.

Track listing

2017 remaster bonus tracks

The original Australian edition included "Sea Cruise" and "Pictures of Matchstick Men 1999". The 2006 Eurotrend budget label reissue ("Influence of Matchstick Men") includes "Pictures of Matchstick Men", while the Dutch reissue from the same year also adds "Sea Cruise" and "I Knew the Bride". "Twenty Wild Horses" (Live) was included on the 2011 Fourth Chord/earmusic remaster (with the originally intended "bent fork" cover artwork), which also has "Sea Cruise" and "I Knew the Bride", but not "Pictures of Matchstick Men". Finally, the 2017 Edsel Records and 2021 earmusic reissues (which revert to the original "pub sign" cover), have all four bonus tracks.

Personnel

Recorded at Chippington Studios, "Little White Lies" recorded at Big Ocean Studios and "Blessed Are The Meek" recorded At ARSIS Studios.

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