DESOLATION ANGELS HAVE GASTRIC JUICES, TOO

After four years, Bad Company toured Britain. They are no longer quite the group who went away— staggering under the weight of audience expectations and the first crash of punk. They now have four gold and platinum albums, thanks almost exclusively to America's audience size and catholic tastes. They sold out their British return—some two or three nights per city—in precisely two hours. They have come back to fit somewhere in that middle ground wasteland between hit singles and new wave. A sort of R&B Fleetwood Mac. Their record company throws a Saturday night, post-first London gig party for them— at a roller skating rink where journalists and liggers can hire skates, fall over and, ironically, pretend it's the late 60's again.

The industry and the new wave may not recognize us, but none of the original fans have left us. -Simon Kirke