Obit:Mick Ralphs Bad Company guitarist (1944-2025)

Subject: RIP Mick Relphs
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 Jun 25 - 10:45 AM

Mick Ralphs (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company) has died at 81 after a long illness. I only knew him from his appearances at Jagz Ascot in his later Mick Ralphs Blues Band 2011 until his illness.
A fine blues guitarist.
RtS

Subject: RE: RIP Mick Relphs
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Jun 25 - 11:01 AM

Ralphs?

Subject: RE: RIP Mick Ralphs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jun 25 - 11:30 AM

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

Born in Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England, Ralphs began playing blues guitar as a teenager, and in his early 20s in 1966, he co-founded the Doc Thomas Group. In 1969, the band would become Mott the Hoople, a name taken from the title and title character of a 1966 novel by Willard Manus.

The group’s self-titled first album, recorded in a week, won a cult following, but the two that followed were critical and financial flops. They finally found popular success and became glam-rock giants with the 1972 David Bowie-penned-and-produced song “All the Young Dudes.” But Ralphs felt creatively cramped in the band led by singer-songwriter Ian Hunter and left in 1973.

He would soon form Bad Company with Rodgers, a singer who had left his own band, Free.

The two had intended only to write songs together, and possibly to make a one-off album as a project. But when Free drummer Simon Kirke asked to sit in, they realized they were nearly a proper group already and went seeking a bassist. They found him in former King Crimson member Boz Burrell.

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Subject: RE: Obit:Mick Ralphs Bad Company guitarist (1944-2025)
From: Mooh
Date: 26 Jun 25 - 07:34 PM

Immediately put on the Best Of Mott The Hoople, and the first Bad Company record, when I read the news.

RIP