Australian singles chart:
Pictures of Matchstick Men entered the Australian singles chart* on 23 March 1968 and peaked at #19.
Songwriter:
Francis Rossi
Producer:
John Schroeder
Record label of Australian release:
Astor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The “matchstick men” of the song refers to the paintings of Salford artist L. S. Lowry.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men
Songfacts:
The group’s lead singer Francis Rossi wrote this song – he was still a teenager and it was just the second tune he had ever composed.
Like many of his later songs, this one is about a woman who treats him wrong (“You make men cry, you lie”). In a Songfacts interview with Rossi, he explained: “Matchstick Men was basically about my ex-wife. I’d just got married, and I thought, Oh, this is a mistake, what have I done?”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/status-quo/pictures-of-matchstick-men
Lyrics:
When I look up to the sky
I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow
I rush home to bed, I soak my head
I see your face underneath my pillow
I wake next morning, tired, still yawning
See your face come peeping through my window
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