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Music Appreciation

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highplainsdem

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Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:13 AM Jun 24

Guitarist/songwriter Mick Ralphs (Bad Company, Mott the Hoople) has died at 81. RIP, Mick [View all]

LBN thread linking to Variety article: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143484741

Rolling Stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mick-ralphs-guitarist-bad-company-mott-the-hoople-dead-1235370273/


I'm going to copy the 4 videos I posted in LBN, the first three Bad Company performances of songs written by Mick, the last video of the best known Mott the Hoople hit.

His song "Can't Get Enough" was their first single and biggest hit. Top of the Pops, 1974:



Two of the beautiful songs Mick wrote, performed in 1974 and 2008:






From 1973, Mick in Mott the Hoople, performing the classic David Bowie wrote for them:

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