Got to cruise the mountains yesterday with my dad who is fighting cancer at 63.. this has always been one of his favorite songs and bands. I was almost in tears getting to sing it with him one more time for sure.
I was 63 last year when I was diagnosed with cancer. Fortunately it was non-invasive, the surgery was successful, I have had no recurrence or spread of malignancy, my treatment has been straightforward and bearable, and my prognosis is good. Be assured that your Dad deeply appreciates you and any siblings you may have, and considers himself deeply lucky to have created another generation to follow him. You are his legacy. I have no kids myself, and I'm fine with it. My choice. I've had a big wakeup call going forward. In an odd kind of way, I'm grateful for it. Cancer is a bitch, but it's pervasive and to some degree inevitable. 40% or more of us will get some form of it. The only answer to this fact is to live mindfully, kindly, realistically and proactively. Avoid what limits your understanding and wastes your time, and LIVE. Best of luck to you.
I am 66 and have secondary cancer. It songs like these that keep me going and bring back such great memories. Bad company are one of the best bands ever and Paul is a brilliant singer.
I'm 63 this year and I've been rocking out to bed company as long as I can remember it's Dick's Journey Kansas Zeppelin Eddie Money Eagles Styx Kansas Foreigner. There's more that I can not remember at this point but the list goes on and on and on all awesome rock and rollers Paul Rodgers is the one of the best for the lead singer I've heard some of the other guys they do a pretty good job but he's the original from what I remember God bless him and God bless you all keep up the good work guys keep rocking and rolling in 2024. I will to the day I die. And remember they all said that rock and roll was just a fad well apparently the fads been around for about 60 plus years. Yippee skippy dippy LOL😊😊😊
As much as I love this song it's always so hard listening to it. My brother died from injuries sustained in a car wreck, I was only 14, he was just 18. He used to play guitar. The part that always gets me crying is "Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day, if you listen to the wind you can still hear him play..." Not a day goes by that I don't miss him, it's been 39 years.
I used to make cassette tapes off the radio. This made it to my mix. I played it over and over. I played soft ball on a traveling state team. My cassette became the team’s favorite on the road. Those were some great times❤😊
Hear you grey beard here taping music of am then fm radio then mixing tracks , not as in what people call mixing these days but back i9n the day made tapes for a few friends to drive 2.......interspersed with Pink Floyd ect
Paul Rodgers, one of the most underrated voices in rock history, love the band, brings back memories of those teen years. Watching dazed and confused and hearing songs from this era
Aiiiiiiieeeeeee!!! Every time I read a “so underrated “ comment I cry out! Aaiiieeeee!! Everyone who says so and so is so underrated has no idea what they are talking about.
please make a point to plan for a rainy day though. It's gonna come and it's easier to handle if you're prepared for it. But enjoy every moment you can
I'm 60+ and my boyfriend use to sing this song to me at night, when we first got together. Fast forward 35 years and he still sings to me. Thanks for the memories.
Brilliant track. I am a British musician who lives in France and I used to play this live, hundreds of times. The audience loved it, even though most of them didn’t know it. It just goes to show what a great song it is.
I remember being at a Bad Company show back in the 80's and when they played this song - the whole arena when nuts. Everyone stood up and sang along and clapped to the beat. It was a really great time.
"Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day - if you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play." That last line still gets me a little teary-eyed, every time. 🧡
This band does not get enough credit Paul Rodgers voice is one of a kind and soooo many great hits,I was just a kid rocking out to these guys and pushing 60,still rocking out ,always will 😁❤
Awesome 👌 Nobody will Repeat the Babyboomers Music or Lives, our kids Remember lol 😆 😉 we played this Music and Tv and Shocker they're Carrying on witn most. Tyou Musicians and Stars for the Joy in my ❤️ i once took for Granted. The Best X in my Life, before Covid and the Sad Society our poor Future Generation's are living in Thinking wearing a Mask Is Normal, i don't Know who will Read this One Day but Please tell my 2 Children & 2 Granddaughters Their Mom & Gma Bunny 🐇 ❤️ Love' s Them Always until we meet Again Xoxoxo's!!! ❤️ from Wilmington North Carolina 4/25/2022.
Man, it hurts to hear this song. This was always my dad's favorite song and one that he for sure wanted played at his funeral. Well, it was played right after Christmas last year. I can't make it through this song without shedding a tear anymore. God, I miss you dad.
This was one of my Dads fav too......... he didnt want nothing played that i kno of at his funeral man ..i feel ya bro, hang in there great song tho song wld come on my dad would always say Love me do
My absolute FAVORITE !! Been sharing this quite often. Woke up then morning & thought of this in bed so immediately went to TH-cam, pulled this up, started dancing to the beat , picked up one of my husbands pictures who’s in heaven, kissed him, sang this to him & we danced together . 🙌 I’ll see you again Kenny Myers my shooting star 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
@@larrysherman4809 thank you♥️ I just happen to be on here & actually stopped by the cemetery to watch the beautiful sunset doing errands. 15 years last May. He’s still my one & only. I know he’s with me.. still get signs & never forget those pennies from Heaven show up everywhere when you least expect it & they’re always on heads. Dimes also. Found his quarter on heads in some old potting soil that fell out in garage. It was 1982 , laying heads up on concrete ♥️✌️
I was born as the last of the boomers, beginning of the X’s. I watched men land on the moon and now watching my nation turn into what we’ve fought for over a hundred years. I’ve seen, heard, lived, the greatest music of all time. I was born and lived in a simpler age. One that has became more complex by the day, then the hour, now by the second. With the exceptions of my memories, I’ve outlived my joy. But, man, they are some epic memories.
@@tcbrison6592 I would really like to do that. When I was a teenager I had this recurring dream, dozens of times, of being old. Long gray hair and beard. Each dream was exactly the same. I was sitting in an old cane back rocking chair, on a shaded, field stone & concrete front porch, enjoying an amazingly cool breeze, smoking blunts, drinking beer, and telling old stories to the neighborhood kids. But, it was just a dream. Kids now don’t want to hear from old people. (Truth being told, I’m not sure they ever really have). My heart aches for the kids and young adults of the modern western world today. They have no imagination. Theirs is given to them, thrown at them, by everyone else through tv, electronic games, the internet, society, and all their “smart” devices. Their “experiences” and “life lessons” aren’t their own. They’ll never know what it’s really like to experience the amazing smell and taste of honeysuckle deep in the woods. Building forts and treehouses. How to catch fish in a small stream using paper clip hooks, cotton string, and bread for bait. Snapping green beans, shelling peas, itching like crazy after picking corn and okra. Having a “pet” cow. Flying June-bugs on a string, or filling a mason jar with lightening bugs. How awesome a piece of Wrigley’s spearmint gum tastes just to be quiet & still in church. How great just churned peach ice cream is even when it feels like your arm may fall off. The pain of the first blisters of the summer on bare feet, and then again a few months later when trying to put on & wear shoes when school starts back. In-neighborhood, or vs another neighborhood football & baseball games. Kick the can until dark-thirty and the Mom calls to come home uses both first & middle names. These memories and thousands of others filled, and were, my childhood, and will be unknown to current and future generations. Maybe when, or if, I get a few years older my “story telling” dream will come true.
This tune hit in 75, I was 12. I was hooked forever. Best rock n roll song ever! I was sure for a long time I’d be found just like Johnny…so were many others… I only hoped you’d hear me somehow in the wind..lucky for me and my 4 amazing children I met Jesus and tomorrow I turn 60!! Not been an easy road but it’s an amazing ride when you know the true Creator 🙏🙏
Amen brother, I was 22 and I really was bad company back then until I was in my 30s thanks to my Jesus I survived and raised 2 buitiful daughters and 2 buitiful grandchildren the oldest just graduated 2024
This was my wife’s favorite band. We live about 30 miles away I borrowed her cassette and with jam out to this headed to see her every day after work after 31 years she’s still sitting right here beside me for some reason! 😎
Wait, if you don’t mind me asking, why don’t you and your wife live together after 31 years??? Just seems like a weird unusual situation that I would like to know more about lol. Sorry for being nosey
I met my wife when she was down on break from the University of Minnesota. I was active duty. We just bumped into each other....25 years later here we are!! 👍
To my husband who passed from an overdose on 2/14/2020. When we first started dating at 16 he introduced me to this song and said it felt like it would be the story of his life. In a way, that ended up being true. RIP dude. I will always love you.
When i was diagnosed with cancer hearing the doctor tell me what the course of action would be and what i would have to indure made me realize just how short life can be. This song comes to mind everytime i think about that day.
Hello, how are you doing now with that diagnosis? I myself just went through surgery as a result of that as well. No history of that in my family at all but yet here it is. But I’m content that it was me and not anyone else in my family. In the last couple years I’ve lost two lady friends that were very special to me as a result of that shyt. It certainly does not discriminate who it attacks. Good Day to You.
That is way too young to pass on. So sorry 😞😢for your loss. I hope you cherish the time you had with her. I almost lost my mother 21 years ago. She will be 82 in June and I cherish the time I get to spend with her.
My 14 year old cat passed away yesterday. I was outside last night looking at the stars, I saw a shooting star. Made me think she's a shooting star now. Also, Made me think of this great song.
My husband passed and this was the last song he and our son jammed to in his car.and i played at his funeral. 17 yrs later, still cry every time I hear it.
I love this song. My X husband, Mark used to sing all the when we sang around the country together. He did it very, very well. Miss him and those days. And I think all people are shooting stars in their own right. Thanks for being you and being there. And last but not least for the God given gift of this song. Hugs
love to you and yours. he is always there. to love and guide you. i know, I lost my brother in 1980 but he is always talking to me. i just have to listen.
Bad Company is one of Classic Rock's great treasures. I am old enough to remember a girl bringing their first album to high school art class ( yes we had a very cool art teacher). So this music and all their other early hits takes me back, way back when....
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE all songs from "BAD COMPANY", they make me feel so ALIVE & give me a phenomenal feeling when I hear them perform. I would have LOVED to go to one of their concerts back in the day, I bet they would ROCK the crowd !!!
My best friend in this world is a half brother to Randy Rhoads. The part "If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play" always makes me think of Randy and how we lost him far too soon.
My sister passed away in the early hours of the 17th march 2021, this ones for you Pol, you and i singing at the top of our voices to this, will always remind me of you. God bless sweetheart, sleep tight. Love you. ❤
So sorry for your loss. My son passed December 26, 2020. He was 34. His name was Johnie. I just woke up and this song started. He couldn’t handle the memories of his two tours in Iraq any longer. Miss him, but got to spend a week with him on Thanksgiving 2020. We will treasure that time with him.
We are all "Johnny". which is the song. I was singing and crying this song 40 years ago. It is a song of life and death, both the same. Glorious , for what you make of it. Not the first or the last.
My dad just died and im so torn. idk what to do im going through his youtube and looking at all the videos he liked. This stood out because i just listened to this the day before he passed i love you so fucking much dad. Im so sorry🩵🩵🩵🩵❤️
I miss these days. 5$ concert tickets, simpler times. Now I am working from home blasting it on my computer..... Thankful I have a job, great wife, good friends, and my health....
This song was not written about Paul, although I'm sure his life was a factor in the writing of it. The song was influenced by the deaths of young stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, among others, who died young due to their addictions.
@@23Skadoosh Then I've been mistaken since the 70's. i can't remember if I heard that or if I assumed it was the case because of the timing and circumstances.
I was 11 years old with a stereo And my sister ten years older started bringing me albums that I still have.. I'm 63 now how cool I still love there music.
I've been listening to Paul Rodgers sing since before there even was a Bad Company. Back when he was the front man for a band called Free. My favorite song of theirs was Fire And Water. His vocal style is unmistakable All the guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd were big fans of them.
This song makes me think of my Dad, who passed away 6 months ago. My Dad had this album and used to play these songs when I was a kid.. I love Bad Company. I cry when I hear these songs, I think of my Dad and the fun person that he was.😭😭😭
This song is the punchline for so many rockers who blew it: Jimi, Janis, Brian, Jim M., and so on. Fame can be so fleeting, and fame is the great imposter, a seductive mistress that can lead one to destruction. Very few celebs keep it real and humble.
My name is actually John, and i am a musician. My mom, who abused me and is a crackhead, used to play this song and tell me it reminded her of me whenever she hears it. She used to sing it out loud and tear up everytime it came on. Thats really the only good memory, or real emotion i ever felt or have of her .
@@JohnKobre-i5c idk who you are and ik this sounds hard to believe but what im saying is 100% true and i felt compelled to comment it just bc it was so odd. I been goin through hard times living out my car workin 2 dead end jobs. Your comment popped up yesterday, i read it , liked it and listened to this song. I kid you not, all bs aside, after nearly 5 yrs of no contact i got a message 2 hrs later on fb from my lil brother asking for my number. When i gave it to him, i got a call 20 mins later. It was my mother. She got a lawsuit settlement recently , and said she wanted to do w.e she could to help me right now because she feels so guilty about not being around when i needed her growing up. This is literally the first thing my mother has genuienly done for me in 34 years of life. If im lying bout this story may God strike me down right after. Whoever you are, your message/prayer is definetley in tune with God himself! Thank you and i pray you are as blessed as can be as well!!
I'm 71 and I had this this Bad Co. album. Shooting Star was my favorite song on the album by far. My brother Mike is a professional guitarist who has played in several bands, and he's played the lead guitar parts in this song note for note, and played them great.
I saw Bad Co in 2016 at . Manchester arena and was supported by Richie Sambora.and I was amazed it was only three quarters full. People can't afford these prices anymore
Yesterday I lost my cousin who was my best friend. Classic rock ran through his veins and Bad Company has always been his favorite group and Shooting Star his favorite song. He went to see them in concert more than a handful of times through the years and we seen them together twice in Huntsville and Gadsden AL together. I miss those days and I miss him already!
Johnny was a schoolboy When he heard his first Beatles song "Love Me Do", I think it was And from there, it didn't take him long Got himself a guitar Used to play every night Now he's in a rock and roll outfit And everything's all right Don't ya know Johnny told his mama Hey, mama, I'm going away I'm gonna hit the big time Gonna be a big star someday Mama came to the door With a teardrop in her eye Johnny said, "don't cry, mama" "Smile and wave goodbye" Don't you know (yeah, yeah) Don't you know That you are a shooting star Don't you know, don't you know Don't you know that you are A shooting star And all the world will love you Just as long, as long as you are Johnny made a record Went straight up to number one Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing his song Watching the world go by Surprising it goes so fast Johnny looked around him and said "Well, I made the big time at last" Don't you know Don't you know Don't you know That you are a shooting star Don't you know, whoa, yeah Don't you know that you are A shooting star, yeah And all the world will love you Just as long, as long as you are A shooting star Don't you know That you are a shooting star Don't you know, ooh Don't you know that you are A shooting star And all the world will love you Just as long, as long as you are Johnny died one night Died in his bed Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets By his head Johnny's life passed him by Like a warm summer day If you listen to the wind You can still hear him play Ooh Don't you know that you are a shooting star Don't you know, don't you know Don't you know that you are a shooting star Don't you know Don't you know that you are a shooting star Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you Don't you know, don't you Know, oh, that you are A shooting star, yeah Ooh, ooh, ooh, woo Don't you, don't you know That you are a shooting star Don't you, don't you know
I love this song! I spent many a night listening to this in the basement as loud as I could play it without my parents yelling at me. It spoke to so many teenager emotions I had as a young woman wanting more in life. Thank you, Bad Company, for being one of the most important bands in my young life!! My album has skips, but it's still the best!!
I remember being 14/15 and buying this album in a record shop just of George St Capetown on a hot day when the heavens opened and it rained like it was the end of the world for 4 hours. Then my dad picked me up to drive home. Never forget it.
Don’t worry everyone is a shooting star, we are equal, when you see the moon tonight, remember the light only comes after the dark, so give thanks to almost to nothing, we are gods children. Blessed we are. CB
I was in high school the first time I heard this back in 1975. I still love it today. Paul's voice is the same now as it was then with a little mellowness to it.
The ballad of all ballads....son...Johnny was a schoolboy When he heard his first Beatles song 'Love Me Do' I think it was And from then it didn't take him long Got himself a guitar Used to play every night Now he's in a rock 'n' roll outfit And everything's alright Don't you know? Don't you know? Johnny told his Mama "Hey, Mama, I'm goin' away I'm gonna hit the big time Gonna be a big star someday" Mama came to the door With a teardrop in her eye Johnny said, "Don't cry Mama Smile and wave goodbye" Don't you know? Everybody, yeah! Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? And all the world will love you just as long As long as you are Well, Johnny made a record Went straight up to number one Suddenly everyone loved To hear him sing the song Watchin' the world go by Surprisin' it goes so fast Johnny looked around him and said "Well, I made the big-time at last!" Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? And all the world will love you just as long As long as you are Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? And all the world will love you just as long As long as you are Johnny died one night, died in his bed Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? Don't you know? Don't you know that you are a shooting star? All the world will love you just as long Long as you are A shooting star
Not untreated at all they burned up the charts in their season now they are the shooting star that always lands .Smile and remember this one as a youth...
I went to see bad company in 1976 1980 1982 best classic rock concert i have ever seen i had sex at the 1976 concert for the first time in the mens batthroom i was 14 she had to be in her 20s she walked up to me asked if i had a joint i said yea we went in a stall took a few hits she unzipped my pants to me it was my lucky day i didnt even ask her name one thing about bad company every song is good they have no bad songs
Lost my dad when I was 17,suddenly I m the man of the house with no one to guide me, what I wouldn't give for 5 minutes with him and some advice, that was 40 years ago I'm now a single father who has raised a wonderful young girl who just graduated university I know he's proud of me
Love the song but can't listen or sing along without tearing up. So sad and beautiful at the same time. It speaks of so much talent lost in a similar way Johnny died. It also speaks of friends who have lost the War for their souls and succumbed to drug overdose. Rest in peace, all. I think of you when I see a Shooting Star streak across the nighttime sky.
@@tapewormbreath8878 johnny is still alive the story continues have you listion to all the songs about johnny angry johnny Johnny's daddy taking him fishing johnny the shoting star johnny boy the fool who was never realy one of the guys and my fav johnny be good and johnny play in the fiddle down in Georgia
@@tapewormbreath8878 This is like if you are "famous" all the world will love you just as long as you are a Shooting Star...They won't love you once you do not cut it anymore.... Boy Pop goes My weasel you are such a perfectionist it's ridiculous. You need to get off everybody's case and remember that nobody is perfect like you must be hahaha
I'm 55 and still LOVE Bad Company....they're CLASSIC!!! It takes me to my teenage years....cruising around Swarthmore and Rutledge and blasting this....#RedheadBChead 🥁🎻🎸🪕🎺🎷🎤🎵🎼🎶
The list of "must listen to" Bad Company songs are long. Here's my personal favorites to hear Paul's voice that cemented him as one of the best male rock vocalists ever. Silver, Blue and Gold, Ready for Love, Electricland, Seagull and for a different side of his voice, listen to Burnin' Sky. All of them are amazing!!
One of the best damn songs I’ve ever heard in my life.., it’s the most incredible song that means so much more to me than anything ever in music ..such a connection with this one right here.. can’t tell you why , but it’s my favorite
My sons Dad passed 5 yrs ago. This was his and his high school friends favorite song his friend Alex passed 1 yr after the graduated. And now they are rocking out backroading on those streets of Gold. He will Always be my shooting star!
My Dad always played this song growing up. Thank God we have music to take us back in time to those special places. As soon as I hear this song, I am a little kid again riding in his pickup truck
15 years old when I first heard this track 64 years old loved this band ever since keep rocking the grave is nearer than it was, keep smiling live passes us by like a long summer day. ♥️👍
First time I heard this was coming back from a company day. One of the lads was a fine singer and belted this out in the van. I asked him what the song was and bought 10 from 6 the next day. Thank you Peter Mac.
Got to cruise the mountains yesterday with my dad who is fighting cancer at 63.. this has always been one of his favorite songs and bands. I was almost in tears getting to sing it with him one more time for sure.
sorry for your fight and pain,i lost my mom for cancer and she really loved bad company
I was 63 last year when I was diagnosed with cancer. Fortunately it was non-invasive, the surgery was successful, I have had no recurrence or spread of malignancy, my treatment has been straightforward and bearable, and my prognosis is good.
Be assured that your Dad deeply appreciates you and any siblings you may have, and considers himself deeply lucky to have created another generation to follow him. You are his legacy.
I have no kids myself, and I'm fine with it. My choice. I've had a big wakeup call going forward. In an odd kind of way, I'm grateful for it. Cancer is a bitch, but it's pervasive and to some degree inevitable. 40% or more of us will get some form of it. The only answer to this fact is to live mindfully, kindly, realistically and proactively. Avoid what limits your understanding and wastes your time, and LIVE. Best of luck to you.
I am 66 and have secondary cancer. It songs like these that keep me going and bring back such great memories. Bad company are one of the best bands ever and Paul is a brilliant singer.
Amen to you & father okay sm❤
I'm 63 this year and I've been rocking out to bed company as long as I can remember it's Dick's Journey Kansas Zeppelin Eddie Money Eagles Styx Kansas Foreigner. There's more that I can not remember at this point but the list goes on and on and on all awesome rock and rollers Paul Rodgers is the one of the best for the lead singer I've heard some of the other guys they do a pretty good job but he's the original from what I remember God bless him and God bless you all keep up the good work guys keep rocking and rolling in 2024. I will to the day I die. And remember they all said that rock and roll was just a fad well apparently the fads been around for about 60 plus years. Yippee skippy dippy LOL😊😊😊
As much as I love this song it's always so hard listening to it. My brother died from injuries sustained in a car wreck, I was only 14, he was just 18. He used to play guitar. The part that always gets me crying is "Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day, if you listen to the wind you can still hear him play..." Not a day goes by that I don't miss him, it's been 39 years.
You will be reunited on the other side. Bless you.
He will always be your big brother- always alive in your heart.
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Thinking of your bro everyday, he's in your heart. He's still with you, babe.
Update.. This band is still great.
Robert Plant said they may be better than us! I believe they were! Straight ROCK!!!😃
Yup
Yes they sure are.and everyone have a nice very happy holiday. And please be careful out there and overseas also.
I used to make cassette tapes off the radio. This made it to my mix. I played it over and over. I played soft ball on a traveling state team. My cassette became the team’s favorite on the road. Those were some great times❤😊
Hear you grey beard here taping music of am then fm radio then mixing tracks , not as in what people call mixing these days but back i9n the day made tapes for a few friends to drive 2.......interspersed with Pink Floyd ect
We all use to do that back in the day.peace brother....
Right!
Ahh the simple life. 😂
Just added it to my softball playlist myself
That line; Johnny’s life passed him by like a warm summer day. If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play.
Gets me every time…..
Makes me sad too. Great song.
Just did the same to me. 😔
I am just happy I can listen to this so many decades later and it’s still like the first time. Not many song like that.
ALWAYS CRYING ON THAT LINE.......
Me to
Paul Rodgers, one of the most underrated voices in rock history, love the band, brings back memories of those teen years. Watching dazed and confused and hearing songs from this era
Don’t know who “underestimates” Rodgers’ voice he’s a legend
Johnny Vanzant 1977 , 1978 , 1919 and it goes on your mask 😷 🎭
Aiiiiiiieeeeeee!!! Every time I read a “so underrated “ comment I cry out! Aaiiieeeee!! Everyone who says so and so is so underrated has no idea what they are talking about.
@@Inky1967 Bad Co & Paul Rodgers & their music has never been underrated IMDO
"underrated" is Tim Buckley, Grant Lee Phillips...no this man here.
Bad Company is the best rock ‘n’ roll band out there anybody’s listening to the song let me know the song is awesome
We had the best music.
Skynyrd was MUCH better.
Don’t forget Boston
CCR still best!
All of them were awesome
That gentle reminder to never let your life pass you by, live and love the moment ❤
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please make a point to plan for a rainy day though. It's gonna come and it's easier to handle if you're prepared for it. But enjoy every moment you can
Also make a point to realize that pills and alcohol only promise instant gratification at the expense of addiction and untimely death.
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I'm 60+ and my boyfriend use to sing this song to me at night, when we first got together. Fast forward 35 years and he still sings to me. Thanks for the memories.
Love it
Sweet
Love him
Here's to another 35 years
Relationships last that long? 🤔
Brilliant track. I am a British musician who lives in France and I used to play this live, hundreds of times. The audience loved it, even though most of them didn’t know it. It just goes to show what a great song it is.
awesome bruv. safe fam proper safe
70's music is the best. I worked for Columbia.
I ❤it too
He'll ya 70 was the best
This was my brother favorite band rest in peace love you I'll see you in the Stars in heaven
I remember being at a Bad Company show back in the 80's and when they played this song - the whole arena when nuts. Everyone stood up and sang along and clapped to the beat. It was a really great time.
Gives me tears just to think how sick that prob was..
@@zacharyherman1400 ...it really was - I'm from Seattle and everyone was convinced the song was a tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
I saw a video on AXS TV of them doing this in Colorado a few years ago, crowd really got into it....Paul still has the pipes.
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Yes for his age he still has it. He is in great shape as well. Greatest singer of ALL TIME!!!
My late husband of 47 years loved this song
Awesome simply outstanding. I wish they still made real music like this with real instruments and people. 1975 was a blast.....
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Grad yr Loved the 70s
One of the BEST vocals in ROCK-N-ROLL!
THE best, an I have heard them all......
Yes they sure are best rock and roll band.
This song defines classic rock at it’s very finest.
I like this song
Always a fkn jam
With out a doubt!😁✌
Definitely!
These guys redefined the blues while boy style.
"Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day - if you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play." That last line still gets me a little teary-eyed, every time. 🧡
Hendrix, baby. We all miss him.
I got chills all through my body. also brought tears. rip.
Lets Jam to it Together....????
My baby brother just passed April 21! I miss him tremendously 😞😭 His name was Johnny! 😁😁😁
@@dianebullard7240
I'm sorry to hear that it's a beautiful song so I hope it brought back beautiful memories..... stay strong buddy
This band does not get enough credit Paul Rodgers voice is one of a kind and soooo many great hits,I was just a kid rocking out to these guys and pushing 60,still rocking out ,always will 😁❤
Absolutely, I'm 56yrs old and still crank it up!!
The best voice ,period
Yes it takes me back to my youth now 66 time flew by🙃
@huggybearjohnson4197 Who else?
Paul Rodgers is 74 years old
One of the finest Rock and Roll songs of all time. Perfect mix of pickin' and singin'.
Awesome 👌 Nobody will Repeat the Babyboomers Music or Lives, our kids Remember lol 😆 😉 we played this Music and Tv and Shocker they're Carrying on witn most. Tyou Musicians and Stars for the Joy in my ❤️ i once took for Granted. The Best X in my Life, before Covid and the Sad Society our poor Future Generation's are living in Thinking wearing a Mask Is Normal, i don't Know who will Read this One Day but Please tell my 2 Children & 2 Granddaughters Their Mom & Gma Bunny 🐇 ❤️ Love' s Them Always until we meet Again Xoxoxo's!!! ❤️ from Wilmington North Carolina 4/25/2022.
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ROCK ROLL BAD COMPANY SHOOTING STAR MUSIC 🇺🇸🇺🇸😀😀✌️✌️👍👍
No…..Bad Company was NOT 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 They were 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
Man, it hurts to hear this song. This was always my dad's favorite song and one that he for sure wanted played at his funeral. Well, it was played right after Christmas last year. I can't make it through this song without shedding a tear anymore. God, I miss you dad.
My dad also liked this song, and has passed
This was one of my Dads fav too......... he didnt want nothing played that i kno of at his funeral man ..i feel ya bro, hang in there great song tho song wld come on my dad would always say Love me do
@@rudykirsh9113 God Bless 🙏 ! Donald Woodall
Just happened to look,thought I had an ulcer for a year after my dad passed,we remember the good things and that we will see them again. Strong song..
I am so sorry for your loss, b rother. Lost my dad in 2005 :(
Be well...
Robert
My absolute FAVORITE !! Been sharing this quite often. Woke up then morning & thought of this in bed so immediately went to TH-cam, pulled this up, started dancing to the beat , picked up one of my husbands pictures who’s in heaven, kissed him, sang this to him & we danced together . 🙌
I’ll see you again Kenny Myers my shooting star 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Wow what a tribute to your man… Sorry he is gone
@@larrysherman4809 thank you♥️ I just happen to be on here & actually stopped by the cemetery to watch the beautiful sunset doing errands. 15 years last May. He’s still my one & only. I know he’s with me.. still get signs & never forget those pennies from Heaven show up everywhere when you least expect it & they’re always on heads. Dimes also. Found his quarter on heads in some old potting soil that fell out in garage. It was 1982 , laying heads up on concrete ♥️✌️
@@larrysherman4809 and thank you AGAIN.. you just made me sing 🎶 this to him again 🎵🤝✌️👏🤛🤛🤛🤛
@@katherinemyers1519 That is so awesome And so rare to have what you had and still have with him
@@katherinemyers1519 your welcome I enjoyed reading your post very special relationship you have
I was born as the last of the boomers, beginning of the X’s. I watched men land on the moon and now watching my nation turn into what we’ve fought for over a hundred years. I’ve seen, heard, lived, the greatest music of all time. I was born and lived in a simpler age. One that has became more complex by the day, then the hour, now by the second. With the exceptions of my memories, I’ve outlived my joy. But, man, they are some epic memories.
Watching the feet that follow stomp our shiny dreams and deeds to dust...
I feel the same man. So grateful I was born when I was. We were the last to experience that gift
You sound like a person with plenty of stories. I’m sure much of the current generations would love to hear them.
@@tcbrison6592 I would really like to do that. When I was a teenager I had this recurring dream, dozens of times, of being old. Long gray hair and beard. Each dream was exactly the same. I was sitting in an old cane back rocking chair, on a shaded, field stone & concrete front porch, enjoying an amazingly cool breeze, smoking blunts, drinking beer, and telling old stories to the neighborhood kids. But, it was just a dream. Kids now don’t want to hear from old people. (Truth being told, I’m not sure they ever really have).
My heart aches for the kids and young adults of the modern western world today. They have no imagination. Theirs is given to them, thrown at them, by everyone else through tv, electronic games, the internet, society, and all their “smart” devices. Their “experiences” and “life lessons” aren’t their own. They’ll never know what it’s really like to experience the amazing smell and taste of honeysuckle deep in the woods. Building forts and treehouses. How to catch fish in a small stream using paper clip hooks, cotton string, and bread for bait. Snapping green beans, shelling peas, itching like crazy after picking corn and okra. Having a “pet” cow. Flying June-bugs on a string, or filling a mason jar with lightening bugs. How awesome a piece of Wrigley’s spearmint gum tastes just to be quiet & still in church. How great just churned peach ice cream is even when it feels like your arm may fall off. The pain of the first blisters of the summer on bare feet, and then again a few months later when trying to put on & wear shoes when school starts back. In-neighborhood, or vs another neighborhood football & baseball games. Kick the can until dark-thirty and the Mom calls to come home uses both first & middle names. These memories and thousands of others filled, and were, my childhood, and will be unknown to current and future generations.
Maybe when, or if, I get a few years older my “story telling” dream will come true.
@@beentheredonethat4257 Get a social media account...Tiktok that stuff. People would join; I know I would. 🤩
This tune hit in 75, I was 12. I was hooked forever. Best rock n roll song ever! I was sure for a long time I’d be found just like Johnny…so were many others… I only hoped you’d hear me somehow in the wind..lucky for me and my 4 amazing children I met Jesus and tomorrow I turn 60!! Not been an easy road but it’s an amazing ride when you know the true Creator 🙏🙏
Me too! We are Boomers!
Amen brother, I was 22 and I really was bad company back then until I was in my 30s thanks to my Jesus I survived and raised 2 buitiful daughters and 2 buitiful grandchildren the oldest just graduated 2024
This was my wife’s favorite band. We live about 30 miles away I borrowed her cassette and with jam out to this headed to see her every day after work after 31 years she’s still sitting right here beside me for some reason! 😎
Treasure it my friend. I lost my wife of 29 years a while back and it still kicks my a$$, but getting there.
Awww best comment ever ❤️
Wait, if you don’t mind me asking, why don’t you and your wife live together after 31 years???
Just seems like a weird unusual situation that I would like to know more about lol. Sorry for being nosey
I met my wife when she was down on break from the University of Minnesota. I was active duty. We just bumped into each other....25 years later here we are!! 👍
Lmao now I'm driving about that distance to see that same woman smh that's how the world turns ...
I am 57 and I dedicate this one to my twin brother.he passed away in 1996 .bad car accident
God Bless You Man......we're with you
I'm incredibly sorry for your loss.
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Sorry to hear that, stay strong
To my husband who passed from an overdose on 2/14/2020. When we first started dating at 16 he introduced me to this song and said it felt like it would be the story of his life. In a way, that ended up being true. RIP dude. I will always love you.
Reminds me of my late big brother, he loved Paul Rogers
I'm sixty now and these old rock songs still put tears down my face everyday as I listen.
Pany
Yes
61 yrs here.......ME TOO!!!! Best music ever!!!! PEACE & LOVE!!!
You heard a song. Then an album. Why was music better then? We had more to love. We were HS. Maybe we were pissed. ... Kidding. It's kinda good stuff.
Likewise 58.
When i was diagnosed with cancer hearing the doctor tell me what the course of action would be and what i would have to indure made me realize just how short life can be. This song comes to mind everytime i think about that day.
Hello, how are you doing now with that diagnosis? I myself just went through surgery as a result of that as well. No history of that in my family at all but yet here it is. But I’m content that it was me and not anyone else in my family. In the last couple years I’ve lost two lady friends that were very special to me as a result of that shyt. It certainly does not discriminate who it attacks. Good Day to You.
U
Earlier this month I started dialysis treatment...My new normal until I can get a kidney....
Prayers for you Brenda Remember old rockers don't die they just keep rockin somewhere else!
May Heaven help you with a wonderful recovery.🙏
lisa im 58 and thank god i grew up on this music.. im been blessed
My Dad passed 3 years ago, I came here to listen to Bad Company to celebrate him and remember my childhood...
hug
This was one of the songs my dad and I would drive around and listen to. He passed in 2018
God Bless!! I lost my Dad in13 and 8 family members in20. One of those being my mom!!
Listening to these oldies always reminds me of my dad too
Sorry brother music is a time machine when uou play it. He us with you.
My mom passed away in 2003. She was 40. This was her favorite song. I'm 40 now and I wish she was here.
I'm so sorry Christy she died too young but she had good taste in music
god bless u 🙏 christy
S dxsd l
I wish she was with all of you
That is way too young to pass on. So sorry 😞😢for your loss. I hope you cherish the time you had with her. I almost lost my mother 21 years ago. She will be 82 in June and I cherish the time I get to spend with her.
This is so powerful and moving. The lead singer, the drumming and the guitar are just perfect!!!!!
I grew up to this. Over 40 years later- Amazing. Just as good as it ever was!
This song gets better each and every day that passes.
Ditto! 9/21
46 years actually ❤️
@@denise8216 go
I grew up to it too and I’m 15
My 14 year old cat passed away yesterday. I was outside last night looking at the stars, I saw a shooting star. Made me think she's a shooting star now. Also, Made me think of this great song.
I will pray for the both oh you.
@kaiserwilly4234 thank you so much 💓
My husband passed and this was the last song he and our son jammed to in his car.and i played at his funeral. 17 yrs later, still cry every time I hear it.
I'm so sorry. This song is so beautiful I can't even imagine the layers of emotion you have from those experiences. Hugs. ❤
Bad Company hit it big right as I turned 14, they defined cool and my life as a teen! Bad Company was always playing in my car!
Did you manage to wreck a Trans Am or Camaro or some other MOPAR, listening to Bad Company? LOL
Me too. And this album is sooo satisfying. When we had no fears or worries!!!
1975 was a GREAT YEAR for ROCK n ROLL
Rock n Roll Will Never Die!!!
Great year...
No it will not it will live though all of us rocks.and yes it was a great year..
Ditto!!!! PEACE & LOVE!
I was 17 years old when this came out smoking bowls and doing acid smoking hash and living it up
I was born in 75. That makes me love this song even more
I love this song. My X husband, Mark used to sing all the when we sang around the country together. He did it very, very well. Miss him and those days. And I think all people are shooting stars in their own right. Thanks for being you and being there. And last but not least for the God given gift of this song. Hugs
And I think all people are shooting stars in their own right. Including Serial Killers, Rapists and Child molesters?
@@hendrikdebruin4012 those should be shot by a star
I lost my boy 7-6-2024 he was 19 yrs old. This song came to mind as I planned his memorial. I love and miss you, Joshua
I'm sorry for your loss
love to you and yours. he is always there. to love and guide you. i know, I lost my brother in 1980 but he is always talking to me. i just have to listen.
I'm sorry, the hardest pain
I can't imagine what you r going thru. I lost a friend that played this song on his guitar and sang beautifully. It always reminds me of him❤❤
AWW I am so sorry for your loss
One of the greatest rocking roll voices of all time.. when god handed out voices he gave Paul Rogers a special one! rock on
Actually your right, he has
@@Deejaay83urj38 Thanks Dawn , nothing like great music. Even though it's so hard to find these days.
love it
Bad Company is one of Classic Rock's great treasures. I am old enough to remember a girl bringing their first album to high school art class ( yes we had a very cool art teacher). So this music and all their other early hits takes me back, way back when....
I have an older cousin who would draw album covers on t-shirts...
This one was one of my favorites!
He's a drummer, too...
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE all songs from "BAD COMPANY", they make me feel so ALIVE & give me a phenomenal feeling when I hear them perform. I would have LOVED to go to one of their concerts back in the day, I bet they would ROCK the crowd !!!
They did.
I know the did God bless the Voice
Misty do you like silver blue and gold
I love Bad Co... I'm a guitarist currently learning a collection of their songs.. studying Mick's guitar technique and tone..
They did :)
Love is never free unconditionally.
71 and going strong. Love the music from this era. Still listening to it and loving it.
72😂
Love this..every time I'm listening to Bad Company songs i wish she was here... i missed my wife badly..she's in heaven now
I hear you down under here.
Was smoking a bowl when listening to this, my lighter wasn’t working and I shouted “this is for you Johnny” and a flame sparked. He truly is with us
"If you listen to the wind he can still help you spark." 😂😂🔥🔥
Amen Brother!!!!!!
Jimi
U mean
Peace to u
Man, i know your right. Love this song and a good smoke.
Bro that's funny
I just turned 75 and I listen to this every chance I get!! 😊
Me too!
Me to 👍
Perfect song so rarely achieved .
My best friend in this world is a half brother to Randy Rhoads. The part "If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play" always makes me think of Randy and how we lost him far too soon.
This is the first time I've ever heard this song
"If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play"
Fantastic
U are Amazing go TN Titans
Lol . Hang in there
Welcome to bad co.....there are a dozen other tunes like this one
Try "Seagull" off their first album, an earlier "idea" of this song
I BELIEVE THIS SONG GOES OUT TO ALL THOSE SHOOTING STARS THAT LET THE FAME CONSUME THEM
In my opinion, One of the best songs ever by a great band.
My sister passed away in the early hours of the 17th march 2021, this ones for you Pol, you and i singing at the top of our voices to this, will always remind me of you. God bless sweetheart, sleep tight. Love you. ❤
So sorry for your loss , one of my favorite songs .
@@gregemurphy346 thank you.
God bless.
So sorry for your loss. My son passed December 26, 2020. He was 34. His name was Johnie. I just woke up and this song started. He couldn’t handle the memories of his two tours in Iraq any longer. Miss him, but got to spend a week with him on Thanksgiving 2020. We will treasure that time with him.
@@littlequeen22 i'm sad for your loss too, bless you and your family.....OMG 34, no age. Sending you hugs from the UK. X
We are all "Johnny". which is the song. I was singing and crying this song 40 years ago. It is a song of life and death,
both the same. Glorious , for what you make of it. Not the first or the last.
I know of one Johnny Scott Dewberry hburkes sonj agapee
John Bonham is Johnny literally about him
My dad just died and im so torn. idk what to do im going through his youtube and looking at all the videos he liked. This stood out because i just listened to this the day before he passed i love you so fucking much dad. Im so sorry🩵🩵🩵🩵❤️
I miss these days. 5$ concert tickets, simpler times. Now I am working from home blasting it on my computer..... Thankful I have a job, great wife, good friends, and my health....
People should take a page from your book. Nice to hear someone grateful for what the have and that LOVE this song!
Right on! Be thankful in advance. Shows you trust God.
Me too man, doing the same thing...
Yes o those were the days ? Running ,fire down Shooting Star's ,Marshall Tucker , Pink Floyd Areo Smith ect....
@@ramonacox4401 live this group
Beautiful song written by Paul Rodgers as a tribute to Paul Kossoff,lead guitarist for the band Free and one of the best rock guitarists ever.
This song was not written about Paul, although I'm sure his life was a factor in the writing of it. The song was influenced by the deaths of young stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, among others, who died young due to their addictions.
@@23Skadoosh Then I've been mistaken since the 70's. i can't remember if I heard that or if I assumed it was the case because of the timing and circumstances.
Paul died later.
I was 11 years old with a stereo
And my sister ten years older started bringing me albums that I still have.. I'm 63 now how cool I still love there music.
I've been listening to Paul Rodgers sing since before there even was a Bad Company. Back when he was the front man for a band called Free. My favorite song of theirs was Fire And Water. His vocal style is unmistakable
All the guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd were big fans of them.
Been a fan of Bad Company since 1977
Did you realize or know that the lead singer was in a group called FREE before BC?
@@Twins1964absolutely his name was Paul Rogers
@@talkingrock7011 cool! Most people don't know that.
This song makes me think of my Dad, who passed away 6 months ago. My Dad had this album and used to play these songs when I was a kid.. I love Bad Company. I cry when I hear these songs, I think of my Dad and the fun person that he was.😭😭😭
This song is the punchline for so many rockers who blew it: Jimi, Janis, Brian, Jim M., and so on. Fame can be so fleeting, and fame is the great imposter, a seductive mistress that can lead one to destruction. Very few celebs keep it real and humble.
One of the great rock stars for sure!
The world will wring everything it can out of them, and give them nothing in return.
My name is actually John, and i am a musician. My mom, who abused me and is a crackhead, used to play this song and tell me it reminded her of me whenever she hears it. She used to sing it out loud and tear up everytime it came on. Thats really the only good memory, or real emotion i ever felt or have of her .
I'm sorry , that's heartbreaking
Bless you trust me eaither way your going to be Just fine watch and see amen thank you Jesus amen ❤❤❤❤
@@JohnKobre-i5c idk who you are and ik this sounds hard to believe but what im saying is 100% true and i felt compelled to comment it just bc it was so odd. I been goin through hard times living out my car workin 2 dead end jobs.
Your comment popped up yesterday, i read it , liked it and listened to this song. I kid you not, all bs aside, after nearly 5 yrs of no contact i got a message 2 hrs later on fb from my lil brother asking for my number. When i gave it to him, i got a call 20 mins later. It was my mother. She got a lawsuit settlement recently , and said she wanted to do w.e she could to help me right now because she feels so guilty about not being around when i needed her growing up. This is literally the first thing my mother has genuienly done for me in 34 years of life.
If im lying bout this story may God strike me down right after. Whoever you are, your message/prayer is definetley in tune with God himself! Thank you and i pray you are as blessed as can be as well!!
DAMM!
Wow that's I don't know what to say but cool
Fantastic song, a true classic !!!! '70s Rock still Rules !!!!
ROCK n ROLL WILL NEVER DIE!!!
I'm 71 and I had this this Bad Co. album. Shooting Star was my favorite song on the album by far. My brother Mike is a professional guitarist who has played in several bands, and he's played the lead guitar parts in this song note for note, and played them great.
@@gabrielsandoval3737 you know it
The 70s talent will never be approached
My pops used to play this all the time. Drove absolutely crazy with it for decades.
Now I play the old guitar.
Miss ya dad ✌️
My cousin passed yesterday he loves bad company trying to comfort myself with some of songs I knew that he loved
I saw Bad Co in 2016 at . Manchester arena and was supported by Richie Sambora.and I was amazed it was only three quarters full. People can't afford these prices anymore
Paul Rogers likes his woman😊
Yesterday I lost my cousin who was my best friend. Classic rock ran through his veins and Bad Company has always been his favorite group and Shooting Star his favorite song. He went to see them in concert more than a handful of times through the years and we seen them together twice in Huntsville and Gadsden AL together. I miss those days and I miss him already!
He's a shooting star now. Every time you look up, he'll be smiling back at you and rocking out with the angels.
So sorry for your loss
My dad taught me to love great music like this. RIP Dad💔
Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song
"Love Me Do", I think it was
And from there, it didn't take him long
Got himself a guitar
Used to play every night
Now he's in a rock and roll outfit
And everything's all right
Don't ya know
Johnny told his mama
Hey, mama, I'm going away
I'm gonna hit the big time
Gonna be a big star someday
Mama came to the door
With a teardrop in her eye
Johnny said, "don't cry, mama"
"Smile and wave goodbye"
Don't you know (yeah, yeah)
Don't you know
That you are a shooting star
Don't you know, don't you know
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are
Johnny made a record
Went straight up to number one
Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing his song
Watching the world go by
Surprising it goes so fast
Johnny looked around him and said
"Well, I made the big time at last"
Don't you know
Don't you know
Don't you know
That you are a shooting star
Don't you know, whoa, yeah
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star, yeah
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are
A shooting star
Don't you know
That you are a shooting star
Don't you know, ooh
Don't you know that you are
A shooting star
And all the world will love you
Just as long, as long as you are
Johnny died one night
Died in his bed
Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets
By his head
Johnny's life passed him by
Like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind
You can still hear him play
Ooh
Don't you know that you are a shooting star
Don't you know, don't you know
Don't you know that you are a shooting star
Don't you know
Don't you know that you are a shooting star
Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you
Don't you know, don't you
Know, oh, that you are
A shooting star, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, woo
Don't you, don't you know
That you are a shooting star
Don't you, don't you know
Why can’t I find friends who like music like this. I’m 24 and I identify as a 50 year old man apparently.
same bro
@@drew5121 maybe you just have an old soul, who appreciates great music✌🏼
You just have great taste for real music with soul.
Actually, you identify as a 70 year old! I am 51 and this was my parents music!
Music crosses all boundaries!!!
This was probably my dad's favorite song. He used to play this a lot. He died last year
It's tunes such as these that keep the memories of our loved ones alive in body, heart, mind and soul.
I love this song! I spent many a night listening to this in the basement as loud as I could play it without my parents yelling at me. It spoke to so many teenager emotions I had as a young woman wanting more in life. Thank you, Bad Company, for being one of the most important bands in my young life!! My album has skips, but it's still the best!!
I luv this song ,it reminds of my older sister.She passed away at the age of 48,over dose.She would be 63 in October 😢
I remember being 14/15 and buying this album in a record shop just of George St Capetown on a hot day when the heavens opened and it rained like it was the end of the world for 4 hours.
Then my dad picked me up to drive home. Never forget it.
I must've listen to this song well over a thousand times. Never get tired of it. Great song!
Don’t worry everyone is a shooting star, we are equal, when you see the moon tonight, remember the light only comes after the dark, so give thanks to almost to nothing, we are gods children. Blessed we are. CB
I was in high school the first time I heard this back in 1975. I still love it today. Paul's voice is the same now as it was then with a little mellowness to it.
The ballad of all ballads....son...Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song
'Love Me Do' I think it was
And from then it didn't take him long
Got himself a guitar
Used to play every night
Now he's in a rock 'n' roll outfit
And everything's alright
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Johnny told his Mama
"Hey, Mama, I'm goin' away
I'm gonna hit the big time
Gonna be a big star someday"
Mama came to the door
With a teardrop in her eye
Johnny said, "Don't cry Mama
Smile and wave goodbye"
Don't you know?
Everybody, yeah!
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know?
Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are
Well, Johnny made a record
Went straight up to number one
Suddenly everyone loved
To hear him sing the song
Watchin' the world go by
Surprisin' it goes so fast
Johnny looked around him and said
"Well, I made the big-time at last!"
Don't you know?
Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
And all the world will love you just as long
As long as you are
Johnny died one night, died in his bed
Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head
Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know? Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
Don't you know?
Don't you know that you are a shooting star?
All the world will love you just as long
Long as you are
A shooting star
Thanks for showing accurate lyrics!
One of the most underrated bands of all time
Ray
Not untreated at all they burned up the charts in their season now they are the shooting star that always lands .Smile and remember this one as a youth...
Yes agree
I went to see bad company in 1976 1980 1982 best classic rock concert i have ever seen i had sex at the 1976 concert for the first time in the mens batthroom i was 14 she had to be in her 20s she walked up to me asked if i had a joint i said yea we went in a stall took a few hits she unzipped my pants to me it was my lucky day i didnt even ask her name one thing about bad company every song is good they have no bad songs
Lost my dad when I was 17,suddenly I m the man of the house with no one to guide me, what I wouldn't give for 5 minutes with him and some advice, that was 40 years ago I'm now a single father who has raised a wonderful young girl who just graduated university I know he's proud of me
Love the song but can't listen or sing along without tearing up. So sad and beautiful at the same time. It speaks of so much talent lost in a similar way Johnny died.
It also speaks of friends who have lost the War for their souls and succumbed to drug overdose.
Rest in peace, all. I think of you when I see a Shooting Star streak across the nighttime sky.
Not yet
@@badspellin582 WTF does your comment mean?!? "not yet" WHAT?!?
@@tapewormbreath8878 johnny is still alive the story continues have you listion to all the songs about johnny angry johnny Johnny's daddy taking him fishing johnny the shoting star johnny boy the fool who was never realy one of the guys and my fav johnny be good and johnny play in the fiddle down in Georgia
@@tapewormbreath8878 This is like if you are "famous" all the world will love you just as long as you are a Shooting Star...They won't love you once you do not cut it anymore.... Boy Pop goes My weasel you are such a perfectionist it's ridiculous. You need to get off everybody's case and remember that nobody is perfect like you must be hahaha
@@Happy57 Put down that beer and edit that comment...thanks!! 🤏✌
1 of the very best songs ever recorded!! Bad company perfection!!
I'm 55 and still LOVE Bad Company....they're CLASSIC!!! It takes me to my teenage years....cruising around Swarthmore and Rutledge and blasting this....#RedheadBChead 🥁🎻🎸🪕🎺🎷🎤🎵🎼🎶
The list of "must listen to" Bad Company songs are long. Here's my personal favorites to hear Paul's voice that cemented him as one of the best male rock vocalists ever. Silver, Blue and Gold, Ready for Love, Electricland, Seagull and for a different side of his voice, listen to Burnin' Sky. All of them are amazing!!
I love this tune ! I get emotional every time I hear it . Love Bad Company . Back in the day when music has substance.
and was not over produced. I do not think they used engineering contraptions. Very different from Boston
My mom also passed 2004 she was 68, came from Nazi Latvia war time to the USA and had me,, I miss you mommy this ones for you ❤ 💫🇺🇸
One of the best damn songs I’ve ever heard in my life.., it’s the most incredible song that means so much more to me than anything ever in music ..such a connection with this one right here.. can’t tell you why , but it’s my favorite
Saw you in Gemany (Ramstein AFB) after the air show disaster. You were and are great for your support
Paul rocked it as the day is long
@@rolandwynhoff9972 well hello.. hope you are doing well
Yes mam..
My sons Dad passed 5 yrs ago. This was his and his high school friends favorite song his friend Alex passed 1 yr after the graduated. And now they are rocking out backroading on those streets of Gold. He will Always be my shooting star!
My Dad always played this song growing up. Thank God we have music to take us back in time to those special places. As soon as I hear this song, I am a little kid again riding in his pickup truck
If mankind is still around in 100 years time, they will still be listening to this and saying damn, that's good.
All I can say is WOW😊
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If you don't play this with the volume on 10, something is seriously wrong with you.
Listening on my Spinal Tap speakers. 11 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Ditto
Wall Shakin' LOUD!!!
Agree 👍
Volume up and cruzzing.
The rollercoaster of emotions I get listening to this track is off the charts. Every single time I hear it, I get sad/happy/optimistic/.
15 years old when I first heard this track 64 years old loved this band ever since keep rocking the grave is nearer than it was, keep smiling live passes us by like a long summer day. ♥️👍
Mick Ralphs is such an underrated player. The solo he does in this is one of the most devastating solos ever.
Fact.
First time I heard this was coming back from a company day. One of the lads was a fine singer and belted this out in the van. I asked him what the song was and bought 10 from 6 the next day. Thank you Peter Mac.
More people than u think buddy. A tribe may not always ride together but we are a tribe none the less.
I've lost most everything in my life except this one song, I find my peace evey time I hear this song.
so sorry
God Bless You. HE has not forgotten you. Go to HIM.
Fucking Amen
Thank you Kevin ❤😅
Much love