Paul Rodgers Songs Ranked

Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949) is an English-Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was the vocalist of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two lesser-known bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist.^[1] He has more recently toured and recorded with Queen. A poll in Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 55 on its list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”. In 2011 Rodgers received the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Rodgers has been cited as a significant influence on a number of notable rock singers. In 1991, John Mellencamp called Rodgers “the best rock singer ever”. Freddie Mercury in particular liked Rodgers and his aggressive style. Here are all of Paul Rodgers songs ranked.

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12. Good Lovin’ Gone Bad (Straight Shooter, 1975)

“Another song not given enough airplay back in the day. Album track reminds me of my old turntable without all the scratching or skipping.”

11. How About That (Here Comes Trouble, 1992)

“Can’t say enough how much I enjoy this cd. I guess it’s never too late to explore your musical likenesses! I highly recommend this cd.”

10. I Thank You (The Royal Sessions, 2014)

“One cannot deny Paul’s passion for this project. His singing is as inflamed and forceful as I ever remember hearing it. But—and this is an important but—he’s got touch and nuance in spades, and this kind of music demands those two things, along with the requisite sheer vocal power.”

9. Soul of Love (Now, 1997)

“The first thing to hit you about “Now” is the crispness and the energy of the sound as ‘Soul Of Love’ literally leaps at you from out of the speakers. It is a great opening track, fast paced with a great melody and some fine guitar from Geoff Whitehorn.”

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8. Seagull (Bad Company, 1974)

“Beautiful song, one of my favorites from this fine debut album. As kfe2 says, its about a man who is overdosing on drugs and is questioning about his life and is it going to end ‘Here is a man asking the question, is this really the end of the world'”

7. Can’t Get Enough (Bad Company, 1974)

“Can’t Get Enough” was both the first and the highest-charting single released by Bad Company. It still receives heavy airplay today on Classic Rock radio. Bad Company would go on to rack up nine Billboard Top 40 singles from 1974 until 1992.”

6. Silver, Blue & Gold (Run with the Pack, 1976)

“Paul Rodgers has a voice that is still incredible. In red rocks & Houston I loved seeing them. Lastly, as my husband & I got older, thru the years we danced to it although it’s a song about loss. Having said that, Running with the Pack is in my humble opinion is their best album.”

5. Bad Company (Bad Company, 1974)

“It’s a song track. I like it, I wanted it, I bought it. It is a quick way to get a single you want. I use these as practice aids for band work. The MP3 format is not optimum for real listening enjoyment. In order to compress the data, a lot of tones are left out. Even a good cassette tape outperforms this storage medium. But it has its uses, and is inexpensive.”

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4. Ready for Love (Bad Company, 1974)

“This song will never be old—great rock, great beat and lyrics, from one of my all time favorite bands. Never gets old. Always one of my fave groups from the 70’s,and still brings back great memories from that era of the British Invasion!!”

3. Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy (Desolation Angels, 1979)

“This heavy rock supergroup – formed in 1974, was the result of a hybrid of talented musicians, who made their mark as members of previously successful pop groups/rock bands.

Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke: lead vocalist and drummer – respectively, from the ashes of Free; Guitarist Mick Ralph’s from superior glam rockers – Mott the Hoople; and bass guitarist Boz Burrell – post-psychedelic/prog-rockers – King Crimson – what more could you possibly ask for!”

2. Shooting Star (Straight Shooter, 1975)

“This tells the story of a young boy who grows up to be a rock star, but succumbs to rock and roll excess and dies of a drug overdose. According to Bad Company lead singer Paul Rodgers, who wrote it, the song is a warning. He wrote it about the casualties of the music business; people like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as others who didn’t make it”

1. Feel Like Makin’ Love (Straight Shooter, 1975)

“Vocalist Paul Rodgers began writing the song when he was touring with Free in 1968 in San Francisco. He said that: “The inspiration was somebody I had met at the time. Life experiences. I traveled, hitchhiking, up to Rio Nido, and camped out in the woods with some people I had met. I was gone for days. It was a wonderful experience to be young and free in America in the ’60s.”