“I remember the fracas. Simon stood in the middle and said to Rodgers, ‘If you want to hit anyone, hit me’ – so he did”: The multi-million selling supergroup whose last big hit was the punch that the singer stuck on the drummer

Bad Company.

Singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke were in two great bands together – first Free and then Bad Company. But when the latter band broke up in the early ’80s, it happened after Rodgers punched Kirke during the making of a terrible album.

In new interviews with MOJO magazine, Rodgers and Kirke – the two surviving founder members of Bad Company – tell the story of the band’s rise, fall and resurrection.