Continuing the discussion from People from Andy's formative ....... Part 4 (Part 3) - #102 by G8ADD.
Previous discussions:
RE: Teri Garr - I only really knew her from the Close Encounters. I suppose I should watch Young Frankenstein although I’ve never been a massive Mel Brooks fan.
I did get Close Encounters on Blu-Ray and it is a beautiful film in the format, and Dreyfuss just had something about him that endeared me. This, Jaws and Always (with the gorgeous Holly Hunter).
Mark
Jaws is good but despite it being from 1975 I only ever watched it from start to finish for the first time last year !
Well it’s been 7 months since the last post here. Today the death of Mick Ralphs was announced. I knew him as the guitarist from the rock group Bad Company. This group was made up from some former members of the group Free (Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke) along with Boz Burrell and Mick Raplhs on guitar.
He was a talented player and wrote plenty of great songs and riffs. I remember buying their second album, Sharp Shooter, not long after it was released in 1975 and listened to it a lot during my spotty pre-university years. 50 years later it’s a classic, something that pops up on shuffle play. It’s one of those albums I’d not pick out to play but when it appears I have to give it some attentive listening.
Anyway in memory of Mick’s playing I offer the following which probably are not famous Bad Company/Mick Ralphs songs:
Deal with the preacher.
Call on me, a softer track with an excellent guitar break in the ending.
Ah, listening to these and I’m back studying for my O levels in 1978 again. I should find a picture of me from then but it probably breaks the Online Safety Act 
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When Free broke up I was gutted. I was mainly drawn to them because of the sound that Paul Kossoff produced. Unfortunately after (IMHO) a less than satisfactory period in Back Street Crawler where his talents were not extended enough (no doubt due to his lifestyle at the time), Koss passed away… the end of an era.
I listened to Bad Company for a while, but I was not that enamoured with the songs they were producing. Undoubtedly Mick’s talents were excellent, but the sound did not particularly strike a chord with me. In the end I got waylaid into Foreigner territory as local amateur Gary G4MEJ was a great fan. I guess it is what you are exposed to at a particular time.
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Paul Kossof was the star of the just-enough-notes kind of playing and dying so young was terrible. I was 15 when he died and back then I was struck by the thought no more “Walk In My Shadows” , “I’ll be Creepin” or “Trouble on Double Time”. I bought my first Free album when I was 11! Bad Company were different but the logical follow on and I liked parts of their output. Now 50 years on I like all of their output a lot more than back then. Yes, they were not Free but Paul Rodger’s voice was still worth listening to. Plus Mick’s licks I missed andy Frasier’s bass lines.
Until I went looking on t’Internet today, I had only seen pictures of Mick Ralphs playing a Les Paul. Now I’ve found pictures and videos of him playing Stratocasters and Flying Vs along with Les Pauls. What is strange is to now see musicians from my formative years dying of old age and not choking on their vomit, drugs overdoses, helicopter crashes or proving their gun wasn’t loaded by accidentally shooting themselves in the head!
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Precisely my thoughts. Scary indeed! 
I can’t decide whether this thread sounds more like Bob Harris on the Old Grey Whistle Test or John Thompson on the Fast Show’s “Jazz Club”…
The answer to your question is “yes”.