"Down the Dustpipe" is a song written by Australian singer-songwriter Carl Groszmann, and recorded by Status Quo.
Groszmann was a client of Valley Music, who were affiliated to Status Quo's management in their early days.
BBC Radio 1 presenter Tony Blackburn dismissed it on air the first time he played it with the comment, "Down the dustbin for this one.
In the future, whenever the two bands met, Man found it entertaining to keep reminding Status Quo of who did the original arrangement for their hit single.
The song was reprised, in 2014, for Status Quo's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare).