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"Gone, Gone, Gone" is a song by English rock band Bad Company. The song was released as the second and final single from the band's fifth studio album Desolation Angels. The song peaked at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 25, 1979. [2] "Gone, Gone, Gone" was written by bassist Boz Burrell, his first composition for the band. [3]
Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as Bad Company's 2nd best song, saying that it "combines a shuffling riff with a classy melody, all done with a big production that still sounds intimate." [ 12 ] Classic Rock History critic Janey Roberts rated it as Bad Company's 3rd best song, saying that "the three chord progression to 'Can’t Get ...
Paul Rodgers started to come up with the lyrics at a camp in California while touring the US with Free.He was 19 years old. After several years, Rodgers played it to Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs who "threw in that big chord in the chorus - the muted 'duh-duh' that marks the shift from country ballad to chest-beating rocker".
Peter Grant, who managed the rock band Led Zeppelin, also managed Bad Company until 1982. Bad Company enjoyed great success throughout the 1970s. Their first three albums, Bad Company (1974), Straight Shooter (1975) and Run with the Pack (1976), reached the top five in the album charts in both the UK and the US.
Rolling Stone critic Ed Naha called "Shooting Star" the "pièce de résistance" of Straight Shooter and "the highpoint of [Paul Rodgers'] writing career." [11] Naha states that "Rodgers nearly assumes the role of the Harry Chapin of crotch rock as he casually recounts the chilling tale of a young rock star … from beginning to end" and that the "calculated effect of the song is made stronger ...
"Bad Company" is a song by the hard rock band Bad Company that was released on their debut album Bad Company in 1974. Co-written by the group's lead singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke , the song's meaning comes from a book on Victorian morals. [ 1 ]
"Burnin' Sky" is a song written by Paul Rodgers and first released by English hard rock supergroup Bad Company. The song was released as the second and final single from the band's fourth studio album of the same name.
Bad Company is the debut studio album by Bad Company, a 1970s English hard rock supergroup. The album was recorded at Headley Grange with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio in November 1973, [ 1 ] and it was the first album released on Led Zeppelin 's Swan Song Records label.