Shooting Star - Bad Company Guitar FC (RB2) Rock Band 2 PlayStation 2 HD Gameplay

PSN ID: djx1100 Gamertag: Djx1100 My Thoughts On The Song/Chart: One of Bad Company's many classic radio staple bangers. This song is a somewhat lengthy ballad that was influenced by the deaths of young rock stars as the result of drug addiction. It's definitely a great poignant rock tune that has a legacy beyond being just another radio staple. The ending Guitar Solo gives me chills sometimes to this day. Song Facts: "Shooting Star" is a song written by Paul Rodgers that was first released by Bad Company on their 1975 album Straight Shooter. Although not released as a single, it became a radio staple and has appeared on many of Bad Company's live and compilation albums. The lyrics of "Shooting Star" tell the story of a boy named Johnny, who went on to become a rock star but died after overdosing on whiskey and sleeping pills. The theme was influenced by the deaths of young rock stars as a result of drug addiction, particularly the deaths from overdoses of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and possibly Jimi Hendrix. Rodgers stated that "At that particular time you had Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin...just a catalog of people who didn't make it, who overdosed in their beds...that was the germ of this song. It's a story and it's almost a warning. The refrain summarizes the theme stating "Don't you know that you are a shooting star, and all the world will love you just as long as you are a shooting star." In a contemporary review, Messenger-Press critic Steve Wosahla suggested that this line is "typical of how we treat our stars today." In 1997, Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke said of the song that: "It's a generic example of what has happened and what can happen and, I'm afraid, will happen to people who come into this business and meddle with drink and drugs. When we were younger, we all dabbled – none of us are saints. I'm not saying we didn't have fun, but I just don't do that anymore...It has a good message for me because I'm in a 12-step program and I try and adhere to it on a daily basis. It's one of those songs that just reminds me to do it." The song employs what Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes as an "expanded aural vocabulary" compared to the songs on Bad Company's debut album. Rolling Stone Album Guide critics Mark Coleman and Mark Kemp described the song as a "half-acoustic lust ballad. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Matt Wardlaw rated it as Bad Company's 3rd best song, saying that it "acts as a cautionary tale about what can happen when a big dreamer gets more success than he can handle. "Shooting Star" was included in the game Rock Band 2. Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.