Bad Company-Holy Water (1990)

In 1986, guitarist Mick Ralphs and drummer Simon Kirke, two of the founding members of Bad Company, joined forces and resumed the group's activity left behind years before when another of the founders Paul Rodgers decided to withdraw from the stage for a time and the recordings. For this new stage they included a new bassist, Steve Price. Back then, Paul Rodgers would return to the world of music but he had decided to form the group The Firm with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, so Ralphs and Kirke decided to sign vocalist Brian Howe who had previously worked with Ted Nugent. on his '84 album "Penetrator".
With Howe the sound of the group took a path very oriented towards Hard / AOR, in counterpoint to the previous and successful stage with Rodgers where a Hard Rock and Blues inherited from the germinal band Free were played. With this new formation, the Bad Company released in '86 the album "Fortune And Fame" which had a great acceptance by the North American and European public.
For their next work, "Dangerous Age", the group signed producer Terry Thomas, who would take over the keyboards and rhythm guitar, composing with Brian Howe and Mick Ralphs all the songs on this album and where a higher quality in the compositions with respect to his previous work.
"Dangerous Age" like the following albums with Howe as Frontman will get a great reception on the world Hard Rock circuits.
With this new identity the Bad Company was reaffirmed in its new era and lived a special revival with notable success,
and whose main attraction lay in its new vocalist.
In the following years a series of remarkable works would follow; Holy Water (1990), Here Comes Trouble (1992) and the direct What You Hear Is What You Get (1993) all of them remarkable Hard / AOR works, productions of an indisputable category and quality within the new sound used, reaching several of his singles to fill the high positions in the American sales charts during the second part of the eighties and nineties.