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Bad Company: Straight Shooter (Island)

Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 29 March 1975

BAD COMPANY were the most remarkable success story of 1974. The band hit number one in the American charts with their first album, became headliners in their own right, topped the music polls as everyone's fave-rave new group. An enviable position for a new rock band, maybe, and one which, on the evidence of this album, is a triumph for good taste. It seems easy to fake it.

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