When the quartet’s debut album, “Bad Company,” was released 50 years ago this month, the eight songs projected a new, distilled approach to hard rock. Lyrics were simple, recording gimmicks were ...

Some musical admirers who can’t get enough of Bad Company are living out a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy as part of a new tribute album. The 10-track set also features several collaborations with Bad ...

Drummer Simon Kirke believes that Bad Company’s decision to replace lead singer Paul Rodgers ultimately “tarnished” the band. It was 1982 when arguments within the group led Rodgers to quit. At the ...

Bad Company fans can breathe a sigh of relief. The band will indeed perform at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony next month. The band's drummer, Simon Kirke, shared the news during ...

Simon Kirke reflects on Paul Rodgers’s early-’80s exit and explains why the band’s attempt to replace him made it worse.

NEW YORK — Bad Company singer-songwriter Paul Rodgers treasures one of his last phone calls with guitarist Mick Ralphs. It was to deliver the news that, at long last, they’d been inducted into the ...

We’re in sad company. Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers won’t be attending the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Nov. 8 due to concerns regarding his health. “My hope was to be at the ...

Bad Company’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction is certainly good news for the band members. And, they say, about time. “It’s been a long time coming,” drummer Simon Kirke said recently via Zoom from ...

If you spend any amount of time talking to Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, one of the best things you'll discover is that he's a real music fan, rabidly passionate for the things, artists and bands that he ...

Ralphs got his start during the mid-1960s with a blues-rock band called The Buddies. In 1966, he joined The Mod Doc Thomas Group, which changed its name to Silence in 1968 and then to Mott the Hoople ...

Earlier in 2025, it was announced that a star-studded tribute album celebrating the music of British supergroup (and 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees) Bad Company would be released this fall.