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Bad Company
Bad Company
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1999 |
Formed in 1973, the British Hard-Rock Outfit Bad Company Was a Supergroup
Comprised of Ex-King Crimson Bassist Boz Burrell, Former Mott the Hoople
Guitarist Mick Ralphs, and Singer Paul Rodgers and Drummer Simon Kirke, Both
Onetime Members of Free. Powered by Rodgers' Muscular Vocals and Ralphs'
Blues-Based Guitar Work, Bad Company Was the First Group Signed to Led
Zeppelin's Vanity Label Swan Song; Their Eponymous 1974 Debut Was an
International Hit, Topping the U.S. Album Charts and Scoring with the Number
One Single "Can't Get Enough of Your Love."Straight Shooter, Issued the
Following Year, Was Another Major Success, Notching the Hit "Feel Like Makin'
Love," While 1976's Run with the Pack Was Bad Company's Third Consecutive
Million-Selling Record. After 1977's Burnin' Sky, the Group Recorded 1979's
Desolation Angels, Which Embellished Their Sound with Synthesizers and
Strings; A Three-Year Hiatus Followed Before the Release of Rough Diamonds,
The Group's Final Lp in Its Original Incarnation.In 1986, Ralphs and Kirke
Resurrected the Bad Company Name, Enlisting Former Ted Nugent Vocalist Brian
Howe to Replace Rodgers; The Reconfigured Unit's Debut Fame And Fortune Was a
Commercial Failure, but 1988's Dangerous Age Became a Minor Hit. 1990's Holy
Water Fared Even Better, As the Power Ballad "If You Needed Somebody" Became a
Top Twenty Success. Here Comes Trouble, Issued in 1992, Achieved Platinum
Status, and Earned Another Top Forty Hit with "How About That." on Their
Twentieth Anniversary, Bad Company Expanded Into a Quintet with the Addition
Of Bassist Rick Wills and Rhythm Guitarist Dave Colwell, and Released the Live
Retrospective the Best of Bad Company Live...What You Hear Is What You Get.
Two More Lps - 1995's the Company of Strangers and the Next Year's Stories
Told and Untold - Followed, and in 1998 the Original Line-Up of Rodgers,
Ralphs, Kirke and Burrell Reunited to Record a Handful of New Tracks Which
Surfaced Alongside Past Material Early the Following Year on the Original Bad
Company Anthology. A Reunion Tour Followed That Spring. - Jason Ankeny