A live Bad Company CD was due from Angel Air in the summer of 2006. Live In Albuquerque 1976 (UK Angel Air SJPCD 221), as the name suggests, is a two-disc set recorded during the band's 1976 Burnin’ Through America tour. It is the first-ever live Bad Company album to capture the group at the peak of their powers in the Seventies. Unfortunately, the album was withdrawn just before release, and the few promotional copies that slipped out now command top dollar in collector circles.
Ten Mott The Hoople CDs have been issued in Japan in July 2006, all featuring card sleeves and bonus tracks. Universal has issued Mott The Hoople, Mad Shadows, Wildlife, Brain Capers, and Two Miles From Heaven. These five discs are also available as a promo box set designated Mott The Hooople Volume 1. Sony has issued All The Young Dudes, Mott, The Hoople, Live,(the 2 CD version) and Greatest Hits. These five titles are also available as a promo box set, designated Mott The Hoople Volume 2. All the bonus tracks are previously released.
A new live Mott The Hoople CD was issued by Angel Air on 3 July 2006. Live Fillmore West, San Francisco (UK Angel Air SJPCD 226), combines 1970 and 1971 recordings at the legendary venue with a previously unreleased studio track, Wreck of the Liberty Belle. Track List: Angel Of Eighth Avenue, It'll Be Me, Walkin' With A Mountain, Whiskey Woman, Darkness Darkness, No Wheels To Ride, Rock'n'Roll Queen, At The Crossroads, Keep a' Knockin', Thunderbuck Ram, Laugh At Me, You Really Got Me, and Wreck Of The Liberty Belle.
The Angel Air 2xCD release Family Anthology (released 4 July 2005) features several tracks of interest to Mick Ralphs fans. It includes Good Morning, a demo recorded by vocalist Jon Best in 1968 with Silence backing him; I Ain't Got You, a 1964 track by The Buddies featuring Mick Ralphs; and Barefootin' and Just Can't Go To Sleep from the Doc Thomas Group album.
Mick Ralphs turned up for the London Astoria gig on Ian Hunter's 2005 UK tour, and played a few songs with the band.
Mick Ralphs joined Ian Hunter for his 2004 tour of the UK and Europe, playing in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Spain.
Mick Ralphs' third solo CD was released on 13 January 2003. Entitled That's Life, the album features eleven new songs written and sung by Mick. The CD also includes two bonus tracks: Mick's original demo of Can't Get Enough, and an unreleased Bad Company track called Budgie.
Mick Ralphs appeared onstage with Bad Company on 20 Sep 2002 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London UK. On 21 Sep 2002 Mick played with Mike Hurst in Henley-on-Thames UK.
On 25 July 2002, Bradford Rocks (BCB Radio, Bradford UK) featured an exclusive interview with Mick Ralphs.
Mick Ralphs joined Ian Hunter for the first time in almost 20 years, when joined Ian's 2002 UK tour. Ian and Mick played 15 gigs over a 16 day span, from May 7-22, 2002. Another old Mott cohort, Stan Tippins, acted as tour manager.
A full page interview with Mick Ralphs is featured in the March 2002 issue of the UK magazine Classic Rock.
On the Angel Air website, Mick Ralphs talks to Jon Kirkman about his new album the album It's All Good. The interview also covers his entire career, including Bad Company and Mott The Hoople. Visit the Angel Air website at www.angelair.force9.co.uk.
Mick Ralphs' new solo album was released on 15 Oct 2001 on the UK Angel Air label. Entitled It's All Good (UK Angel Air SJPCD052), the album includes eleven new studio tracks, plus one track recorded live with Bad Company on their recent reunion tour. Mick plays all instruments on this instrumental album.
On 16 September 1998, Mick Ralphs made an in-store appearance at the Virgin Megastore in London along with Ian Hunter, Verden Allen, and Blue Weaver. They signed copies of the Sony box set, and Campbel Devine's authorized biography. Virgin had advertised a live performance by Hunter, Ralphs, and Allen, but it never materialized. See the In-Store Appearance page for more details.
Bad Company were featured on a VH1 (US) Behind The Music TV special, first broadcast on 28 August 1999. The one-hour documentary was obviously timed to sustain interest their tour and the Original Bad Company Anthology box set. All four original members were interviewed, along with replacement vocalist Brian Howe.
The Bad Company Pay-Per-View event from 21 May 1999 was edited down to a single hour, and broadcast as an installment of the VH1 (US) Hard Rock Live TV show on 28 August 1999.
In August 1999, the original four members of Bad Company - Mick Ralphs, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell - completed a four-month tour of the USA. The band were featured in a VH1 Behind The Music special, and a Pay-Per-View TV special broadcast from the Hard Rock Live Theater in Orlando, Florida. The tour was to support the two-CD The Original Bad Company Anthology, released in March 1999.
Bad Company are featured on the cover of the July 2, 1999 issue of Goldmine (US) magazine. Mick Ralphs, Paul Rodgers, and Boz Burrell are interviewed, and the feature runs a full ten pages and includes many photos. The web address for Goldmine is http://www.krause.com/records/gm/.
The original lineup of Bad Company reunited in 1998 to record four new tracks for The Original Bad Company Anthology, a two-CD set released in March 1999. The band toured the USA in support of the release, and a show from the Hard Rock Live Theater in Orlando FL was broadcast as a Pay-Per-View TV event.
On 3 December 1998, Angel Air reissued Mick Ralphs' Take This album (UK Angel Air SJPCD037). The disc contains a nice booklet detailing Mick's career, and includes ten previously unreleased bonus tracks.
