William Raspberry
May, 1975
Anyone for basics? Bad Company, a metallic blues-based British rock group, has resuscitated and revitalized a style and sound all too rare on the current music scene--rock 'n' roll without the gimmicks. "It wasn't any kind of master plan," says Mick Ralphs, 27, who left the lead-guitar slot and stagy antics of Mott the Hoople to form Bad Company. "It was just a shared feeling that we wanted to put more reality into the scene." In 1973, he got together with Paul Rodgers, 25, f...
