Paper Plane (song)

"Paper Plane" is a rock song originally by Status Quo released as a single in 1972 (reaching number 8 in the charts) and on their album Piledriver.

The song was written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young and was one of Status Quo's first successes in their new heavier musical direction.

It has more recently been covered by Persephone's Bees.

Status Quo
  • Francis Rossi
  • Rick Parfitt
  • Andy Bown
  • John 'Rhino' Edwards
  • Leon Cave
  • Alan Lancaster
  • John Coghlan
  • Jess Jaworski
  • Roy Lynes
  • Pete Kircher
  • Jeff Rich
  • Matt Letley
Studio albums (UK)
  • Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo
  • Spare Parts
  • Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
  • Dog of Two Head
  • Piledriver
  • Hello!
  • Quo
  • On the Level
  • Blue for You
  • Rockin' All Over the World
  • If You Can't Stand the Heat...
  • Whatever You Want
  • Just Supposin'
  • Never Too Late
  • 1+9+8+2
  • Back to Back
  • In the Army Now
  • Ain't Complaining
  • Perfect Remedy
  • Rock 'Til You Drop
  • Thirsty Work
  • Don't Stop
  • Under the Influence
  • Famous in the Last Century
  • Heavy Traffic
  • Riffs
  • The Party Ain't Over Yet
  • In Search of the Fourth Chord
  • Quid Pro Quo
  • Bula Quo!
UK Top 20 singles
  • "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
  • "Ice in the Sun"
  • "Down the Dustpipe"
  • "Paper Plane"
  • "Mean Girl"
  • "Caroline"
  • "Break the Rules"
  • "Down Down"
  • "Roll Over Lay Down"
  • "Rain"
  • "Mystery Song"
  • "The Wild Side of Life"
  • "Rockin' All Over the World"
  • "Again and Again"
  • "Whatever You Want"
  • "Living on an Island"
  • "What You're Proposing"
  • "Lies" / "Don't Drive my Car"
  • "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like"
  • "Rock 'n' Roll"
  • "Dear John"
  • "Ol' Rag Blues"
  • "A Mess of Blues"
  • "Marguerita Time"
  • "Going Down Town Tonight"
  • "The Wanderer"
  • "Rollin' Home"
  • "Red Sky"
  • "In the Army Now"
  • "Dreamin'"
  • "Ain't Complaining"
  • "Running All Over the World"
  • "Burning Bridges"
  • "The Anniversary Waltz (Parts One and Two)"
  • "Come on You Reds"
  • "Jam Side Down"
  • "You'll Come 'Round"
  • "The Party Ain't Over Yet"
Other singles
  • "Black Veils of Melancholy"
  • "Make Me Stay a Bit Longer"
  • "Are You Growing Tired of My Love"
  • "The Price of Love"
  • "In My Chair"
  • "Tune to the Music"
  • "Gerdundula"
  • "Rockers Rollin' / Hold You Back"
  • "Accident Prone"
  • "She Don't Fool Me"
  • "Who Gets the Love?"
  • "Not at All"
  • "Little Dreamer"
  • "Can't Give You More"
  • "Rock 'til You Drop"
  • "Roadhouse Medley"
  • "I Didn't Mean It"
  • "Sherri, Don't Fail Me Now!"
  • "Restless"
  • "When You Walk in the Room"
  • "Fun Fun Fun"
  • "Don't Stop"
  • "All Around My Hat"
  • "The Way It Goes"
  • "Little White Lies"
  • "Twenty Wild Horses"
  • "Mony Mony"
  • "Old Time Rock and Roll"
  • "All Stand Up"
  • "Thinking of You"
  • "All That Counts Is Love"
  • "Beginning of the End"
  • "It's Christmas Time"
  • "Jump That Rock (Whatever You Want)"
See also
  • Status Quo discography
  • Bob Young
  • Book


Famous quotes containing the words paper and/or plane:

    “A cow does not know how much milk it has until the milkman starts working on it. Then it looks round in surprise and sees the pail full to the brim. In the same way a writer has no idea how much he has to say till his pen draws it out of him. Thoughts will then appear on the paper that he is amazed to find that he possessed. “How brilliant!” he says to himself. “I had no idea I was so intelligent.” But the reader may not be so im pressed.”
    —Gerald Branan (1894–1987)

    “It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)