{"id":2823,"date":"2014-10-27T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:58:29","slug":"albums-of-long-kesh-beano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"Albums of Long Kesh: Beano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albums of the Kesh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bad Co.\/Bad Company-1974<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a year that brought us such melodic masterpieces like Wear It\u2019s At by The Rubettes and the master-ful eponymous Quatro, 1974 can be remembered as one of the halcyon times for outstanding albums.\u00a0 Think Court and Spark\/Joni Mitchell\u2014461 Ocean Boulevard\/Eric Clapton\u2014Diamond Dogs\/Bowie\u2014Planet Waves\/Dylan\u2014On The Beach\/Neil Young\u2014or perhaps one of the greatest live albums of all time-It\u2019s Too Late To Stop Now by Van Morrison.\u00a0 We layabouts in Compound 11 were certainly spoiled for choice and rather cash strapped laying out all those \u00a32:20\u2019s.\u00a0 In between all the boot bulling-drilling-lectures-cleaning-route marching-exercising and protesting sometimes we were lucky enough to book an hour on the Dansette in the study hut to spin out personal favourites.\u00a0 It has been well documented before that many albums were synonymous with Long Kesh…and by this time those that were most favoured would have been Tubular Bells\u2014Dark Side of the Moon\u2014Band on the Run and for the older generation known as the Sad Sacks\u2014Porter Wagoner\u2019s Greatest Hit or the Worst of Charlie Pride.\u00a0 Albums like these, when being played always drew moans of despair from the younger prisoners and remarks about receiving free packets of blades with every album bought.
\n\"\"<\/a>Bad Company was of course a manufactured band.\u00a0 Singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke from the wonderful Free plus Boz Burrell from King Crimson and Mick Ralphs late of Mott the Hoople.\u00a0 If the new amalgamation wasn\u2019t being lauded as a new Supergroup-a la-Cream or to a certain extent CSNY– much was expected of them —-and they didn\u2019t disappoint.\u00a0 Rodgers\u2019s voice was a powerful fulcrum for the band.\u00a0 He epitomised rock and roll with his raunchy\u00a0 much imitated voice andwith the band signed to Swan Song records\u2014Led Zeppelin\u2019s label-they had truly arrived with a bang. \u00a0The album-Bad Co.-was released early in 1974 with the first single coming right away.\u00a0 Can\u2019t Get Enough of your Love remains the bands highest charting single.\u00a0 Although the song was credited to Mick Ralphs it could have been lifted straight from a Free back catalogue and rivalled Alright Now for intensity and rockability\u2014testimony to Rodgers wondrous voice.\u00a0 Indeed, such esteem was he held in, that in between the breakup of Free and the formation of bad Company Rodgers was the number one choice to replace Jim Morrison as lead singer of the Doors after that talismans untimely death in July 1971.<\/p>\n

Bad Company – Can’t Get Enough – YouTube<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Bad Co. Was much played in Eleven that summer and for many of us was a great antidote to the saccharin sweet drivel that plagued the charts.\u00a0 By the following year the same line up would regale us with another masterpiece-Straight Shooter complete with my personal favourite Paul Rogers lyric\u2014\u201cJohnny was a schoolboy when he heard his first Beatle song\u2014Love Me Do I think it was……… \u201c.\u00a0 In 1976 they released their third album\u2014Running With the Pack.\u00a0 This album was a particular favourite \u00a0for one of my closest friends\u2014in Cage 21\u2014who used it for the next 12 years as a writing pad when composing letters home.\u00a0 The myriad of inscriptions on it over all of those years would have given a cryptographer a few nights overtime in Bletchley Park, attempting to decipher the modern day hieroglyphics.\u00a0 Both were great albums with some exceptional tracks but the immediacy of Bad Co. ensured that this was the album we\u2014of a certain age and disposition\u2014would remember them by.\u00a0 We watched in wonder when we seen them on television performing on of their classic tracks..we dreamed of the day when we could wear those tight fighting loons, and platform shoes\u2014rather than the quasi paramilitary garb we were now used to—to be allowed to grow our hair to almost unmanageable lengths rather than the short back and sides that was now regulation fare.\u00a0 The music alone was what made us semi-rebels\u2014and that was as good as it got.<\/p>\n

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Beano<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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