WCSX Classic Cuts : Seagull

WCSX Classic Cuts

Bad Company: "Seagull"

The Hook: Paul Rodgers' favorite Bad Company song.

Album: Bad Company

Year: 1974

Writers: Paul Rodgers and Mick Ralphs

Stats: Never released as a single, it's still become a mainstay for the band and it's fans around the world.

The Background: In a 1999 interview, Paul Rodgers chose "Seagull" -- on which he plays all the instruments --as one of his three career-defining songs. He explains why.

Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers on why "Seagull" is a career-defining song for him. OC:...identify with. :25

"When I first put Bad Company together, we really didn't have an image, or a this. or a that, or anything. We were just a bunch of guys with a bunch of songs. And that was one song that I put on the album just because I liked it. It was never released as a single and never particularly emphasized, but everywhere I go in the whole world, people call for that song -- from Glasgow to Tokyo. For some reason, it's got some kind of strange quality to it that people identify with."