Bad Company
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
Straight Shooter, issued the following year, was another major success, notching the hit Feel Like Makin Love, while 1976s Run With the Pack was Bad Companys third consecutive million-selling record. After 1977s Burnin Sky, Bad Company recorded 1979s Desolation Angels, which embellished the groups sound with synthesizers and strings; a three-year hiatus followed before the release of Rough Diamonds, the groups 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 units debut, Fame & Fortune, was a commercial failure, but 1988s Dangerous Age became a minor hit. Released in 1990, Holy Water fared even better, as the power allad If You Needed Somebody became a Top 20 success. Here Comes Trouble, issued in 1992, achieved platinum status, and earned another Top 40 hit with How About That. On their 20th 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 -- 1995s The Company of Strangers and the next years Stories Told and Untold -- followed, and in 1998 the original lineup of Rodgers, Ralphs, Kirke, and Burrell reunited to record a handful of new tracks that surfaced alongside past material early the following year on The Original Bad Company Anthology. A reunion tour followed that spring.
