Straight Shooter (Bad Company album)

Not to be confused with Straight Shooter (James Gang album).

Straight Shooter
Studio album by
Bad Company
Released28 March 1975 (1975-03-28)
RecordedSeptember 1974
StudioClearwell Castle, Gloucestershire, England[1]
Genre
Length38:17
LabelIsland (UK)
Swan Song (US)
ProducerBad Company[1]
Bad Company chronology
Bad Company
(1974) 		Straight Shooter
(1975) 		Run with the Pack
(1976)
Singles from Straight Shooter
  1. "Good Lovin' Gone Bad"
    Released: March 1975[2]
  2. "Feel Like Makin' Love"
    Released: June 1975 (US)[3]

Straight Shooter is the second studio album by the English hard rock supergroup Bad Company. The album was released on 28 March 1975.[4]

The album reached number 3 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200.[5][6] It was certified gold (500,000 units sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America a month after its release.[7] The album was remastered and re-released in 1994.

The track "Shooting Star" (written by lead singer Paul Rodgers) was lyrically inspired by the drug and alcohol-related deaths of guitarist Jimi Hendrix and other rock musicians.

  1. ^ a b Straight Shooter (Vinyl sleeve). Bad Company. United States: Swan Song Records. 1975. Back cover. SS 8413.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Strong, Charles (2002) [Originally published in 1994]. The Great Rock Discography (Sixth ed.). United Kingdom: Canongate Books. p. 133. ISBN 1-84195-312-1.
  3. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (19 November 1995). Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780862415419.
  4. ^ "BPI".
  5. ^ "Bad Company Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 August 2014
  6. ^ "Bad Company – Billboard Albums". AllMusic. United States: Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  7. ^ RIAA Certification Search Type "Straight Shooter" under Title for search results.