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Shooting Star
Bad Company
Straight Shooter
Supervision Recommended
Information
Released 1975
Genre Classic Rock
Language English
Source Rock Band 2
Available September 14, 2008
Playable in
Rock Band 2
Rock Band 3
Rock Band Blitz
Difficulty
Band 3
Basic Pro
Guitar 3 NoNo Part
Bass 3 NoNo Part
Drums 1 1
Keys NoNo Part NoNo Part
Vocals 2 2
Details
Male singer
Guitar Solo
3-part Harmonies
Big Rock Ending


"Shooting Star" is a song by Bad Company which tells the story of young boy who grows up to be a Rock Star, but he succumbs to Rock and Roll excess and dies of a drug overdose. According to Bad Company lead singer Paul Rodgers, the song is a warning. He wrote it about the casualties of the music business; people like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as others who didn't make it. (Thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, WA)

Rogers may have drawn inspiration from his former Free band mate, late guitarist Paul Kossoff, who died of a heroin overdose.

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