| Dog of Two Head | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Status Quo |
| Cover: | DogOfTwoHead_StatusQuoalbum.jpg |
| Released: | 5 November 1971[1] |
| Studio: | Pye Records, London |
| Genre: | Hard rock, blues rock |
| Length: | 36:09 |
| Label: | Pye NSPL 18371 |
| Producer: | John Schroeder |
| Prev Title: | Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon |
| Prev Year: | 1970 |
| Next Title: | Piledriver |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
Dog of Two Head is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released by Pye Records in November 1971.
At the time of recording, the band consisted of Francis Rossi (credited on the sleeve as Mike Rossi), Rick Parfitt (credited as Ritchie Parfitt), Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan (credited as John Coughlan). They had released a non-album single that March, a Rossi/Young song called "Tune to the Music", but it was not a hit. The band then set to work writing and recording a new album. A couple of the songs, such as the opening track "Umleitung" (German for 'diversion'), had been written the previous year.
Rossi and Young's "Mean Girl", a single from the album, was to become a UK #20 hit some time later, in April 1973, after they had their third top ten British hit single with "Paper Plane", from their next album Piledriver. When "Mean Girl" charted, the record company decided to release another single from the album: a rerecording of "Gerdundula", the B-side to their 1970 single "In My Chair". This was released in July 1973, and failed to chart. The B-side to this single was Rossi and Parfitt's "Lakky Lady", taken from the band's previous album Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon.
AllMusic largely praised the album's unusual stylistics in their retrospective review, commenting that Status Quo "were going to find their characteristic sound in their posterior effort, Piledriver, but never again were they going to sound as innovative and inventive as they sound here."
All songs written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young, except where noted. "Gerdundula" was written by the duo under the pseudonyms Manston and James.