Bad Company-"Fame and Fortune" (1986)

After Paul Rodgers left the Bad Company, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke re-founded the line-up to move on. And several things changed from then on. The productions stopped being stale and faithful to the bluesy textures of the early days to give way to more pompous productions. The AOR, melodic rock, keyboards and sounds that flooded the FM stations around the world completely infested the Bad Company sound. To a large extent that was due to the inclusion in the ranks of the group of someone like Brian Howe, who would take over the vocals.
Not in vain, and with the arduous mission of supplying the still omnipresent Paul Rodgers, Brian reconfigured the sound of the group with his voice, his only endorsement until then was the brutal 'Penetrator' that he recorded in 1983 with Ted Nugent and here he surpassed himself with you grow up doing extraordinary work.
Thus, the second stage of Bad Company starts with a good song like "Burning Up", in "Fame and Fortune" the most classic Bad Company return with that aftertaste of blues, the melodic "Long Walk" already leaves glimpse the future of the band, on the other hand is "Valerie" an impeccable song and the two precious ballads "When We Made Love" and "If I'm Sleeping" that leave one of the best albums of the genre of the decade of the eighty.