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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 27, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Michael Monroe, Mammoth, ZZ Ward and more

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Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album

Watch now: The Struts' video for their cover of Bad Company's Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy

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Bad Company’s Simon Kirke reveals Mick Ralphs couldn’t speak in a final call, but ‘I just told him I loved him’

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“We did it in this old haunted house, standing in front of this open fire with a couple of Marshalls outside the fireplace... It was two in the morning”: Can't Get Enough was Bad Company's breakout smash, and its harmonized leads were perfect for the era

Keyed in by their mentors-of-sorts, Led Zeppelin, the band recorded their enormously successful debut album at the legendary Headley Grange house, which certainly provided a certain vibe to the proceedings...

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Mick Ralphs obituary

Skilful guitarist and songwriter with the bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company

The Guardian - UK

“Our Mick has passed, my heart just hit the ground”: Mick Ralphs, guitarist for Mott The Hoople and Bad Company, has died aged 81

He played on All The Young Dudes and other rock classics

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Bad Company and Mott The Hoople star Mick Ralphs dead at 81

Mick Ralphs has passed away after years being bedridden following a 2016 stroke.

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Mick Ralphs, founding member of Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, dies at 81

Mick Ralphs, singer, songwriter guitarist and founding member of the classic British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died

The Independent UK

Mick Ralphs death: Bad Company and Mott the Hoople guitarist dies aged 81

The guitarist famously played on the David Bowie-produced single ‘All the Young Dudes’

The Independent UK

Mott The Hoople and Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs dead at 81

Mick Ralphs' death has been confirmed in a statement from Bad Company

Louder

“An amazing and versatile guitarist who had the greatest sense of humor”: Mick Ralphs, guitarist and co-founder of Mott The Hoople and Bad Company, has died at 81

Ralphs' bandmate, Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers, led tributes to the guitar great

Guitar World

Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs dies aged 81

A statement on the band’s official website announced the news.

Evening Standard

Allison Williams says Girls cast weren’t given proper credit for show due to focus on privilege

‘We were easy targets, I get it,’ actor said

The Independent UK

"Like remembering your 16-year-old self watch your parents dance at a wedding": Bad Company fail to recapture old glories on Desolation Angels

Made between the much-derided Burnin' Sky and the much-derided Rough Diamonds, Desolation Angels was heralded as a return to form - but was it?

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A beginner's guide to Bad Company in 10 songs

The best songs by Bad Company, the supergroup who took blues rock to the stadiums of America

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“Boz would always have a bottle of Smirnoff in his bass case”: The epic life and high times of Bad Company bassist Boz Burrell, rock’n’roll’s ultimate cool dude

Boz Burrell bought effortless cool to King Crimson and Bad Company and died the way he lived – on his own terms

Louder

"I remember this cold, damp day in Barnes Cemetery, lugging this plexiglas coffin around with Mickey Mouse": The curious story of Free's debut album

Recorded for just £800, Free’s Tons Of Sobs remains one of rock’s greatest debut albums

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"I think everyone has some sort of death wish... but I don't want to die": The spectacular rise and tragic fall of Paul Kossoff

Paul Kossoff should have been one of rock and blues' great guitar heroes. Instead, the light of the Free and Back Street Crawler guitarist shone briefly – and burned out quickly

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"What we need is a song that is just really simple that everyone can sing": Paul Rodgers on the mission statement and magical musical combination that fuelled Free classic All Right Now

"I do think Koss’s sound was a big part of it"

Louder

"Who knows where we would have gone had we not had that monster hit? It was the beginning of the end for us": The real story of Free, told by those who were there

Free burnt brightly and all too briefly: The story of Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke

Louder

“I never liked it. I never understood it. And it made no difference to the way we played, not for a second”: how Bad Company defied punk to make their classic third album Run With The Pack

In 1976, punk was on the verge of exploding. But rock was far from done – and Bad Company were making a stand with Run With The Pack

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“Peter Grant had tears in his eyes. He gave a little speech and then said, ‘Now get the f**k out of here and knock them dead’”: how Bad Company‘s classic debut album won over the US and turned them into the next Led Zeppelin

Spooky houses, supergroups and the patronage of Led Zeppelin – how Bad Company became one of Britain’s biggest musical exports in the 70s

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"A vision with the light shining through her dress" - the woman who inspired Free's All Right Now

The "raunchy and suggestive" All Right Now broke Free in America - although the band members' stories about the origins of their most famous song differ

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Andy Fraser: “It was me trying to impersonate Pete Townshend, who was, to me, the all-time greatest chord king”

How Free’s worst ever gig inspired one of the most iconic bass solos in rock

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