Bad Company (album)
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| Studio album by Bad Company | ||||
| Released | 26 June 1974 | |||
| Recorded | November 1973 at Headley Grange, East Hampshire, England[1] | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 34:45 | |||
| Label | Swan Song | |||
| Producer | Bad Company | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Rolling Stone | (favourable)[3] |
Bad Company is the eponymous debut studio album by hard rock band Bad Company.
The album was recorded at Headley Grange with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio in November 1973.[1]
The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200.[4] Since then the album has sold in excess of five million copies and has become the 46th best selling album of the 70's.[5] The album spent 25 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, entering at #10 and reaching its highest position of #3 in the second week.[6] Kerrang! magazine listed the album at No. 40 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".[7]
The singles "Can't Get Enough" and "Movin' On" peaked at #5 and #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.[8] "Rock Steady", "Bad Company" and "Ready for Love" (the latter originally recorded by guitarist Mick Ralphs during his tenure with Mott the Hoople on All the Young Dudes) are also "classic rock" radio staples.
In 2006 a limited edition CD of 24K Gold was released. It had taken over a year to find the original master tapes, then the analog masters were put through proprietary A/D converter. Another remaster was previously released in 1994.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Can't Get Enough" (Mick Ralphs) – 4:16
- "Rock Steady" (Paul Rodgers) – 3:46
- "Ready for Love" (Ralphs) – 5:01
- "Don't Let Me Down" (Rodgers, Ralphs) – 4:22
[edit] Side two
- "Bad Company" (Rodgers, Simon Kirke) – 4:50
- "The Way I Choose" (Rodgers) – 5:05
- "Movin' On" (Ralphs) – 3:21
- "Seagull" (Rodgers, Ralphs) – 4:06
[edit] Omitted tracks
- "Superstar Woman" (Rodgers) – 5:04
- This was later re-recorded for the Paul Rodgers 1982 solo studio album Cut Loose.
[edit] Non-album tracks
- "Little Miss Fortune" (Rodgers) – 3:53
- Released as the b-side to the "Can't Get Enough" single.
- "Easy on My Soul" (Rodgers) – 4:11
- Re-recording of an old Free track from their 1973 studio album Heartbreaker, it was released as the b-side to the "Movin' On" single.
[edit] Personnel
Per sleeve notes[1]
- Paul Rodgers – vocals, second guitar on "Can't Get Enough", piano on "Bad Company" and "Don't Let Me Down"
- Mick Ralphs– guitar, keyboards on "Ready for Love"
- Simon Kirke – drums
- Boz Burrell – bass
- Sue Glover and Sunny Leslie – back up vocals on "Don't Let Me Down".
- Mel Collins – saxophones on "Don't Let Me Down"
- Ron Fawcus – tape operator
- Hipgnosis – sleeve design, photography
- Ron Nevison – engineer, mixing
- Steve Hoffman – mastering
- Barry Diament – mastering
- Beverly Taddei – production coordination
- Bob Wynne – art direction
[edit] Charts
- Album
| Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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| Canada (RPM)[9] | 7 |
| Norway (VG-lista)[10] | 17 |
| UK (The Official Charts Company)[11] | 3 |
| US Billboard 200[4] | 1 |
| Chart (1975) | Peak position |
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| New Zealand (RIANZ)[12] | 27 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1974 | "Can't Get Enough" | Pop Singles | 5 |
| 1975 | "Movin' On" | Pop Singles | 19 |
| Preceded by Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder |
Billboard 200 number-one album September 28 - October 4, 1974 |
Succeeded by Endless Summer by The Beach Boys |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c (1974) Album notes for Bad Company by Bad Company, back cover [Vinyl sleeve]. Island Records.
- ^ Baksi, Gautam. Album review Bad Company at Allmusic. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
- ^ Scoppa, Bud. "Album review Bad Company". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/bad-company-19740829. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Bad Company - Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bad-company-p3607/charts-awards/billboard-albums. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
- ^ "Bad Company RIAA certification". www.riaa.com. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=bad%20company&artist=&format=&perPage=50.
- ^ "UK chart history - Bad Company Bad Company". www.chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=37717. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ Johnson, Howard (21 January 1989). "Bad Company 'Bad Company'". Kerrang!. 222. London, UK: Spotlight Publications Ltd..
- ^ "Bad Company - Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bad-company-p3607/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.3859a&type=2&interval=20&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Bad Company - Bad Co". norwegiancharts.com. http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Bad+Company&titel=Bad+Co&cat=a. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
- ^ "1974-06-22 Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive". Official Charts. 1974-06-22. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/1974-06-22/. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Bad Company - Bad Co". charts.org.nz. http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Bad+Company&titel=Bad+Co&cat=a. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
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