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Bad Company: City Hall, Newcastle

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 March 1979

I WALKED into a pub before the gig and... go on, guess what was playing on the jukebox, 'Alright Now'. Eh? You don't get the significance? Well, you uncouth young person, Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke of Bad Company were the founders of Free, progenitors of that classic single. Before you were weaned, I expect.

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