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Black Veils Of Melancholy is a Francis Rossi composition which became Status Quo’s second single. The record’s failure to achieve any real success saw the band then being thought of as just ‘one hit wonders’. The song itself was universally criticised for being a carbon copy of “Pictures Of Matchstick Men”. Although “Black Veils Of Melancholy” was included on the band’s first album, the flipside track - the Roy Lynes composition “To Be Free” - was not featured on any of the band’s albums until the release of the budget-priced compilation Status Quo-tations, in November 1969. Read on...