This world is so crazy and confused and violent I'm so grateful that I'm not young because the future of this.world is dying and it's heartbreaking.Thank you Paul for 40 years of driving in my truck rocking out to feel like making love. Steve Perry.when I hear journey today on the radio it almost brings me to back in the late 70s. I love all their music and you guys are lo ed by soany.you were my x husband's favorite band and Journey. I love silver, blue and gold because.my rainbow is overdue. These bands and singers are old now and I knew I might not get another chance to see them play. I just saw Paul Rodgers last year 2019 touring with REO Speedwagon and they absolutely Rocked the House that night.

AnonymousOh man.if you don't love Bad Co.i don't know how you could love Rock n Roll.

Lee Bob from Minnesota“Shooting Star” has held the number one slot of “Worst Song of All Time” on my Worst list for over 2 decades.

Just know that he was referring to different rock stars in the aggregate, and enjoy the music. Don't get caught up in trying to figure out who, specifically, Paul was writing about. Not likely that Hendrix was a school boy at 21 years of age. Love Me Do, I think it was.' Hendrix was born in 1942 and Love Me Do was released in 1963, which would have made Hendrix 21 years of age. If you're trying making exact references to some of the lyrics, Paul wrote 'Johnny was a school boy when he heard his first Beatle song. Instead, it was a compilation of artists who had died before their time because of drugs, etc.

Floridabass from TampaCome on, folks - Paul didn't write the song specifically for Hendrix.

Bolin died of a drug overdose, 'A bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head.' Maybe it was both, they both died about the same time.

Gtr from Us ATommy Bolin - maybe kossoff.

Shooting Star is a reference to main lining Heroin and as relevant nearly 50 years later

Jonny Mills from Hatfield Hertfordshire Thank God for the fact that John Frusciante wasn't that schoolboy.

not pinpointing any rock star in particular although their are many who fall in the category.

Lrpgrant from Los Angeles, Ca, 90038.wanting to be a rock n roll star.

'Us' being the collective group of artists who are being warned in this song by someone who know too well and actually cared enough to write about it. As a musician, who wishes to remain anonymous- and as a recovering IV heroin addict- one who also OD'd at age 27, but lived to tell the tale (33 years clean & serene now) I can confirm that this song is especially touching to us.

you probably loved Hootie & The Blowfish too.īottom line- 'Shooting Star' is a powerful ballad with a nice combination of acoustic guitar, power cords on electric, harmonious vocals in the bridges & chorus- with haunting lyrics delivered by the exceptional vocals of Paul Rogers. Who do you like? Rush? The Eagles? Foreigner? Wings? Yeah I thought so. Surely not an American rock n roll fan to say that this song especially, let alone any of Bad Company's work is on that list of yours. who knows for sure? Paul Rogers and probably at least a dozen people close to him & the band.Īs for Lee Bob from Minnesota- 1st off, the f**k is in Minnesota? Canada should just absorb that state as it pretty much is Canada. He was collectively part of the group that Paul Rogers was writing about, and perhaps his writing was foreshadowing the death of band mate Paul Kossoff a year after the release. Still Jimi would have been 21 yrs old at the release of the Beatles love me do, also a dropout prior to age 17, not that it matters- but he definitely was not a schoolboy in 1963.

'Forever 27' as the list of them still continues to grow on. Mikenice from New York, NyPpl, whomever said it's definitely about Jimi- well, yes, Jimi is indeed included in this tragic, eery group of artists who were 'shooting stars' literally stars who shot heroin & other hard drugs, figuratively, as the talent who died (too) young of either overdose directly or other excess related to the rockstar life.he was such an incredible musician what a loss. John Delmos from Lebec CaliforniaI thought it was about Jimi Hendrix too.

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