Straight Shooter (Bad Company album)
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| Released | 28 March 1975 | |||
| Recorded | September 1974 | |||
| Studio | Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire, England | |||
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| Length | 38:17 | |||
| Label | Island (UK) Swan Song (US) | |||
| Producer | Bad Company | |||
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Straight Shooter is the second studio album by the English hard rock supergroup Bad Company. The album was released on 28 March 1975.
The album reached number 3 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It was certified gold (500,000 units sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America a month after its release. The album was remastered and re-released in 1994.
The track "Shooting Star" (written by lead singer Paul Rodgers) was lyrically inspired by the drug and alcohol-related deaths of guitarist Jimi Hendrix and other rock musicians.