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"Like remembering your 16-year-old self watch your parents dance at a wedding": Bad Company fail to recapture old glories on Desolation Angels

Bad Company onstage in 1979.
Bad Company - Desolation Angels
(Image credit: Swan Song)

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Lifting its title from that of a Jack Kerouac novel in which the Beat Generation author documented his growing disenchantment with Buddhism, Bad Company’s fifth album found the blues-rock giants running out of inspiration somewhat, their muscular meat-and-veg moves (which on the first three albums had splendidly transcended their limitations) carried solely by Paul Rodgers’s voice, which was itself going through the motions.

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