Bad Company- Straight Shooter 50th- Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke 3-24

On the fiftieth anniversary of Bad Company’s second album Straight Shooter, we are reminded by the oldest cliche’ in the rock music business: you have your whole life to write the songs on your first album, but six months to a year to write the material for your follow up. And as Keith Richards responded when I asked what he had learned from fifty years in the Rolling Stones, he sagely replied, “That cliches’ are true.”

Certainly no sophomore slump after the 1974 Bad Company debut here. Even half a century later, the songs “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad”,”Feel Like Making Love” (a Top Ten hit in America), and “Shooting Star” are heard daily on US radio as well as essentials when Bad Company tours, helping to sell half a million copies of Straight Shooter in the first month of release and eventually over three million just in the US. Join my guests Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke the week of March 24 here In the Studio to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Straight Shooter by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees Bad Company. -Redbeard