Songoftheday 8/14/18 - Last night when the moon was new, I couldn't sleep I was thinking of you and how much I need ya...
from the album Here Comes Trouble (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2
Today's song of the day comes from the British hard rock band Bad Company, who had returned to the pop chart in the Spring of 1991 with their Holy Water album. Their third featuring replacement lead singer Brian Howe spun off two top-40 pop hits with "If You Needed Somebody" and "Walk Through Fire". In the fall of the following year, the trio of Howe, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke re-emerged for their next album, Here Comes Trouble. Using Felix Krish temporarily as bass player (Roxy Music's Rick Wills would join up for the tour), the album would aim to reproduce the sound (and success) of Holy Water, again pairing with producer Terry Thomas, who co-wrote with Howe the first single, the midtempo rocker "How About That"...
"How About That" became Bad Company's ninth and final top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in November of 1992. The song was a massive success on rock radio, topping Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart for six weeks (their biggest hit there). Internationally, the single climbed to #17 in Canada. The second single from Here Comes Trouble, the power-ballad "This Could Be The One", managed to get to #21 on the Mainstream Rock chart, but stalled down at #87 on the pop Hot 100 in America, and missed the top-40 at #48 in Canada. Howe would depart the band after touring behind the record.
Kirke, Ralphs, and Wills (with second guitarist Dave Colwell) carried on and recruited singer Robert Hart for their most recent original studio album Company Of Strangers. From it the track "Down And Dirty", with Hart sounding a lot like original vocalist Paul Rodgers made it to #17 on the Mainstream Rock chart, but pop radio didn't bite. After another record of covers as well as a tour, Hart went on his own way.
In 1998, Kirke and Ralphs reunited with original members Paul Rodgers and bassist Boz Burrell in putting together a two-disc anthology of their work, which included four new songs by the classic lineup. Two of them hit the rock radio chart; "Hey Hey" (Mainstream Rock #15) and "Hammer Of Love" (Mainstream Rock #23). They toured yet again, but again it left Rodgers and Kirke leaving at the end. Since then various members have come together to tour under the name, especially after Rodgers' stint with Queen.
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And here's the audio of the band performing the song live in concert in 1993...
Mulleted crooner covers the Brothers.
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