WCSX Classic Cuts : Bad Company
WCSX Classic Cuts
Bad Company: “Bad Company”
The Hook: London boys pretend they’re bad-asses out of a spaghetti western.
Year: 1973
Album: Bad Company
Writers: Simon Kirke and Paul Rodgers
Stats: Released as the third single from BadCo’s debut album, it didn’t chart in America but got plenty of FM rock radio airplay.
Background: Bad Company’s ex-Free contingent, drummer Simon Kirke and singer Paul Rodgers, wrote the band’s signature song at Rodgers’ cottage outside London. Kirke explains that it was inspired by the times — and a certain amount of wishful thinking.
Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke recalls writing the song “Bad Company” with Paul Rodgers. OC:…good songs. :25
“That was written in 1973, when it was all spaghetti westerns, Clint Eastwood, The Man With No Name and tumbleweed and mist and all that stuff. And we all thought we were sort of gunslingers and we had this image of Bad Company, four guys riding into town and shooting up and having our way with various women, when really we were just four adolescents in London. It was written in ten minutes, like all good songs.”
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