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6/26/1974 Bad Company releases self-titled debut album

 

Bad Company is the band name, the album title, and the the first track on side two of one of the most impressive debut albums of the mid '70s that got its release on this day in 1974. It also was the first album released on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.

The band formed by powerhouse vocalist Paul Rogers of Free and Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs was soon joined by Free drummer Simon Kirke and King Crimson veteran Boz Burrrell. The album was recorded at Headley Grange, the English country estate Zeppelin and many other UK artists would use as a rehearsal and recording site using Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio.

 

Other Noteworthy classic rock events on June 26 include...

1942 Canned Heat's Larry Taylor born.

1955 Mick Jones of the Clash born.

1957 Patti Smyth of Scandal born. 

1963 John Lennon and Paul McCartney write She Loves You in a hotel in Newcastle, UK.

1964 The Moody Blues form.

1964 Beatles release A Hard Day’s Night in the US.  

1967 The Rolling Stones release Flowers.
1967 Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention releases Absolutely Free.

1973 Mick Jagger named in a maternity suit filed by Marsha Hunt.   

1973 Keith Richards arrested on drug an weapon charges in Jamaica.

1975 Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes album gets release.

1976 Grateful Dead release Steal Your Face. 

1976 Roxy Music announces a temporary break-up.

1979 Queen releases Live Killers.

1986 Metallica's James Hetfield breaks a wrist in a skateboarding crash.

1992 Van Halen sued by an Oklahoma family whose home phone number was the same as the one used on the cover of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge album.   

1996 Van Halen announces David Lee Roth will rejoin the band.   

2012 20 year old that attended party Bob Seger’s 16 year old daughter threw at Bob’s house while her father was on tour turns himself in for stealing several items including his 1978 Les Paul guitar.

2014 Like A Rolling Stone lyrics sell for $2 million in Sotheby’s auction.

2017 U2's Adam Clayton gets MusiCares Award in New York City.

2020 Kansas releases The Absence of Presence.