Bad Company
| Bad Company | |
|---|---|
 Bad Company, 1976 from left: Burrell, Rodgers, Kirke, Ralphs |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , blues rock |
| founding | 1973 |
| Website | www.badcompany.com |
| Founding members | |
| Paul Rodgers | |
| Mick Ralphs | |
| Simon Kirke | |
| Boz Burrell († 2006) | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Paul Rodgers |
guitar |
Mick Ralphs |
Drums |
Simon Kirke |
bass |
Jaz Lochrie |
| former members | |
singing |
Brian Howe († 2020) |
Bad Company is a British rock band formed in 1973 . The band had their greatest successes in the 70s and 80s . Her hits included Bad Company and Can't Get Enough from her debut album. But Feel Like Makin 'Love, No Smoke Without a Fire and Burnin' Sky are also widely known.
history
The band was formed by Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke after Free and Mick Ralphs of Mott the Hoople broke up . Then there was Boz Burrell , who had played for King Crimson for a few years . They supposedly named themselves after the western of the same name in the original version In Bad Company by Robert Benton . Singer Paul Rodgers stated, however, that the name was inspired by an image in a Victorian moral primer that he saw as a child; it shows a child looking at a shabby, seedy figure hanging around, with the caption reading: "beware of bad company." Several successful LPs were released up to the official breakup of the band in 1983. (After that Paul Rodgers founded with Jimmy Page , the band The Firm .)
In 1986, Simon Kirke and Mick Ralphs decided to found a new band together to make music together again. They won Brian Howe as a singer, who had previously recorded the album Penetration with Ted Nugent . Other members of the still unnamed band are Gregg Dechert ( keyboard ) and Steve Price (bass). After the newly formed formation recorded their first album together, Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun offered them $ 800,000 in case they would release the album under the name Bad Company. The band agreed and released Fame and Fortune in October 1986. The album, which was produced by Keith Olsen and Mick Jones , flopped and didn't even hit the Billboard Top 100.
Dechert was subsequently fired, the band had decided to forego keyboards as far as possible in the future. In 1988 the band released the album Dangerous Age, which reached number 58 on the US charts. At the beginning of 1990 Howe had made the plan to release a solo album, because he interpreted the tensions that had arisen within the band in such a way that he might be fired. However, this was talked out of him by Derek Shulman, who advised him to bring in the songs written for the next Bad Company album. In June 1990 Holy Water appeared, which could reach the top 30 on the Billboard charts. After another album, which received the 1992 title Here Comes Trouble , the live album What You Hear Is What You Get was recorded and released in 1994, then Howe got out.
Bad Company signed Robert Hart, with whom they recorded the albums Company of Stranges (1995) and Stories Told and Unhold . In 1998 Paul Rodgers returned for an anniversary tour.
The band has been active again since 2002. Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke performed at Florida's Hard Rock in Hollywood in August 2008. In February 2010 the concert recording was released as the album "Hard Rock Live". In 2010 there were other concerts in this formation. A recording of the concert on April 11, 2010 in London was released in 2011 on CD, DVD and Blu-ray under the title Live at Wembley .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 UK
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 US
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| 1974 | Bad Company |
DE45 (1 week) DE |
UK3  (26 weeks)UK |
US1  × 5
(64 weeks)US |
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| 1975 | Straight shooter |
DE47 (1 week) DE |
UK3 (27 weeks)UK |
US3 × 3
(33 weeks)US |
|
| 1976 | Run with the pack | - |
UK4th (12 weeks)UK |
US5 (28 weeks)US |
|
| 1977 | Burnin 'Sky | - |
UK17 (8 weeks) UK |
US15th (24 weeks)US |
|
| 1979 | Desolation Angels | - |
UK10 (9 weeks) UK |
US3 × 2
(37 weeks)US |
|
| 1982 | Rough Diamonds |
DE61 (2 weeks) DE |
UK15 (6 weeks) UK |
US26 (18 weeks) US |
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| 1986 | Fame and Fortune | - | - |
US106 (9 weeks) US |
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| 1988 | Dangerous Age | - | - |
US58 (40 weeks)US |
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| 1990 | Holy water | - | - |
US35 (75 weeks)US |
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| 1992 | Here comes trouble | - | - |
US40 (20 weeks)US |
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| 1995 | Company of Strangers | - | - |
US159 (3 weeks) US |
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more publishments
- 1996: Stories Told & Untold
Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DE
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UK
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US
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| 2016 | Live in Concert 1977 & 1979 |
DE85 (1 week) DE |
UK74 (1 week) UK |
US166 (1 week) US |
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more publishments
- 1993: The Best of Bad Company Live
- 2002: In Concert: Merchants of Cool
- 2006: Live in Albuquerque 1976
- 2010: Hard Rock Live
- 2011: Live at Wembley
Compilations
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DE
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UK
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US
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| 1985 | 10 from 6 | - |
UK- |
US137 × 2
(14 weeks)US |
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| 1999 | The 'Original' Bad Co. Anthology | - |
UK-  |
US189 (1 week) US |
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| 2010 | The very best of | - |
UK10 (14 weeks)UK |
- |
with Free
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| 2011 | Extended Versions | - | - |
US82 (25 weeks) US |
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more publishments
- 2015: Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy: The Very Best of Bad Company
- 2018: An Introduction to Bad Company
- 2020: Desolation Angels (40th Anniversary Edition)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DE
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UK
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US
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| 1974 | Can't Get Enough Bad Company |
- |
UK15 (8 weeks) UK |
US5 (15 weeks) US |
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| Movin 'On Bad Company |
- | - |
US19 (10 weeks) US |
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| 1975 | Good Lovin 'Gone Bad Straight Shooter |
- |
UK31 (6 weeks) UK |
US36 (8 weeks) US |
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| Feel Like Makin 'Love Straight Shooter |
- |
UK20 (9 weeks) UK |
US10 (15 weeks) US |
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| 1976 | Young Blood Run with the Pack |
- | - |
US20 (13 weeks) US |
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| Honey Child Run with the Pack |
- | - |
US59 (6 weeks) US |
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| 1977 | Burnin 'Sky Burnin' Sky |
- | - |
US78 (4 weeks) US |
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| 1979 | Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Desolation Angels |
- | - |
US13 (20 weeks)US |
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| Gone, Gone, Gone Desolation Angels |
- | - |
US56 (6 weeks) US |
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| 1982 | Electricland Rough Diamonds |
- | - |
US74 (4 weeks) US |
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| 1986 | This Love Fame and Fortune |
- | - |
US85 (5 weeks) US |
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| 1988 | Shake It Up Dangerous Age |
- | - |
US82 (8 weeks) US |
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| 1990 | Holy Water Holy Water |
- | - |
US89 (6 weeks) US |
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| If You Needed Somebody Holy Water |
- | - |
US16 (24 weeks) US |
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| 1991 | Walk Through Fire Holy Water |
- | - |
US28 (17 weeks) US |
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| 1992 | How About That Here Comes Trouble |
- | - |
US38 (13 weeks) US |
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| This Could Be the One Here Comes Trouble |
- | - |
US87 (8 weeks) US |
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more publishments
- 1974: Bad Company
- 1975: Run with the Pack
- 1977: Everything I Need
- 1986: That Girl
- 1986: Fame and Fortune
- 1989: No Smoke Without a Fire
- 1999: Hey Hey
- 1999: Hammer of Love
Video albums
- 2002: Merchants of Cool (In Concert) (UK / US:gold)
- 2005: Inside Bad Company 1974–1982
- 2010: Hard Rock Live (as part of the "Special Edition" of the CD of the same name and as a Blu-ray Disc)
- 2011: Live at Wembley (also as Blu-ray)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Emmeline Saunders: Bad Company frontman Brian Howe dies of heart attack on way to hospital. May 7, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .
- ^ Paul Rodgers Says John Bonham's Death Influenced Decision to Quit Bad Company - Spinner . Spinner.com. August 27, 2010. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved on August 7, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e f The trail leads nowhere in: Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 02/2018, pages 60 to 65
- ↑ http://www.badcompany.com/concerts.html
- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE UK US
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US