Song · Bad Company
“Gone, Gone, Gone” by Bad Company
From the album Desolation Angels (1979)
“Gone, Gone, Gone” by Bad Company appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1982 and 2023. It was first released in 1979 on the album Desolation Angels. Its best result is #86 on the KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,065 classic rock song of all time.
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"Gone, Gone, Gone" marked a first for Bad Company: bassist Boz Burrell wrote it by himself, his first solo composition for the band, and it went out in 1979 on Swan Song as the second and last single from Desolation Angels, their fifth album. The band produced it themselves, with Tony Patrick recording.
The trade papers dug it. Cash Box heard guitar-driven blues-rock riding a crunching bass line, with Paul Rodgers laying on his smoky delivery, and Record World praised its tribal beat and stinging guitars. Jack Garner of the Democrat and Chronicle went further, hearing something jazzy, a new direction, with minor harmonies that caught his ear. It reached number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100 that August, and Classic Rock History later ranked it Bad Company's 10th best song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 86 | 95.5 KLOS | KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) | 499 |
| 1990 | 498 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2023 | 707 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
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