A second album can be found on the bootleg market, which is often referred to as The Law II. The Law, Rodgers’ 1991 musical venture with former the Who and Faces drummer Kenney Jones, produced Billboard’s number one AOR chart hit “Laying Down the Law” written by Rodgers, but the album peaked at number 126 on the Billboard 200 chart. Even so, the Firm’s two albums, The Firm and Mean Business, achieved moderate sales success and produced the radio hits “Radioactive”, “Satisfaction Guaranteed”, and, in the UK, “All The King’s Horses”. Critics’ reception of the band was sometimes scathing (one review used the term “supersludge”) and also mixed. This led to Rodgers and Page’s further teaming in the group the Firm, which resulted in two albums and two tours. The inspiration behind ARMS had been former Small Faces/Faces member Ronnie Lane’s own struggle with M.S. When his friend Jimmy Page started to come around to his house, guitar in hand and Led Zeppelin at an end, the duo’s first live pairing was on the US ARMS (Action Research into Multiple Sclerosis) Tour, which had first been mooted by Eric Clapton and, besides Rodgers and Page, would include Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Steve Winwood and others. The album reached number 135 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart. He composed all of the music and played all of the instruments. In October 1983, Rodgers released his first solo LP Cut Loose. Rodgers said he and Ralphs were still trying to come up with a name for the band, “and I just said ‘Bad Company’, and there was this scuffling noise and he said, ‘Shit, I dropped the phone-that’s it!’ The line-up also included Free drummer Simon Kirke, and Boz Burrell, former vocalist and bassist of King Crimson. Rodgers formed his next band, Bad Company, with Mick Ralphs, former guitarist of Mott the Hoople. It was a number one hit in more than 20 territories and acknowledged by ASCAP in 1990 for having received over a million radio plays in the US. In 1970, they shot up the international radio charts with “All Right Now”, which Rodgers wrote with the group’s bassist Andy Fraser. In 1968, Rodgers joined bluesy rockers Free as singer and songwriter. Freddie Mercury in particular liked Rodgers and his aggressive style. In 1991, John Mellencamp called Rodgers “the best rock singer ever”. Rodgers has been cited as a significant influence on various rock singers. In 2011 Rodgers received the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. A poll in Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 55 on its list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”. He has also performed as a solo artist, and collaborated with the remaining active members of Queen under the moniker Queen + Paul Rodgers, from 2004 until both parties parted ways in 2009. He was the lead vocalist of numerous rock bands, including Free, Bad Company, the Firm and the Law. Paul Bernard Rodgers (born December 17, 1949) is an English-Canadian singer, songwriter and musician.
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