Mick Ralphs (born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, 31 March 1944, Stoke Lacy, Hereford, Herefordshire) is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was a founding member of rock bands, Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.
Ralphs played with a blues-rock group called the Buddies (who released a single in 1964) in his teens.
Then a guitarist with the Doc Thomas Group between 1966 and 1968, Ralphs joined Mott the Hoople the following year. In 1973, dissatisfied ...
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Mick Ralphs (born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, 31 March 1944, Stoke Lacy, Hereford, Herefordshire) is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was a founding member of rock bands, Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.
Ralphs played with a blues-rock group called the Buddies (who released a single in 1964) in his teens.
Then a guitarist with the Doc Thomas Group between 1966 and 1968, Ralphs joined Mott the Hoople the following year. In 1973, dissatisfied with Ian Hunter's growing domination, Ralphs left Mott the Hoople to team up with former Free vocalist Paul Rodgers to form Bad Company. This band ultimately had greater commercial success than Mott The Hoople. Ralphs' composition "Can't Get Enough", which Mott was unable to record because of the vocal register in which it was written, became an immediate hit and pushed the group's 1974 debut album to number one in the U.S. Ralphs continued to record and tour with Bad Company until they folded in 1982, when Rodgers announced he was leaving the...
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