Great moments in British rock 'n' roll that remain obscure in the U.S.: Status Quo, "Paper Plane," 1972

For the next few weeks, we'll take a break from our usual utterly obscure features in favor of the curious phenomenon of bands that were hugely successful in the UK, but never really made it in the U.S.  We start with Status Quo, which was one of the most successful rock bands in Britain from the early 1970s onwards, yet after their brief psychedelic period in the 1960s, they never again cracked the U.S. charts.   Here's one of their many well-known hits from the 1970s: