"We have kept in touch all these years and became good friends, hoping to collaborate on new music. Brian Howe, the former lead vocalist of Bad Company, has died at the age of 66. During this time, the band also achieved five top 10 hits on the Billboard Rock charts, including “Shake It Up”, “No Smoke Without a Fire”, and “Holy Water”.
This week's heart attack in Lake Placid, Fla., where Howe resided, was preceded by a scooter accident during late April in which he punctured a lung and broke four ribs. "Brian was a good friend and wonderfully gifted vocalist and songwriter," Nugent tells Billboard by email. © 2020 Billboard. In announcing his departure he said that "it had got to the point where nobody was contributing anything to songwriting and quite frankly the band was getting very, very sloppy live. I quite simply got tired of doing all the work and then getting nothing but resentment for it from Mick and Simon.”. Howe went on to release three solo albums as well as a single, "Hot Tin Roof," in 2017. 1 Source For Breaking Music, Film, and TV Headlines, Thousand Pieces of Gold Cast and Crew Reunite for COVID-EODROME on Twitch, How Kraftwerk and David Bowie Paved the Way for Music As We Know It Today, Borat's Daughter Infiltrated the White House Thanks to OAN, Ranking: Every Smashing Pumpkins Album from Worst to Best, Rudy Giuliani Caught on Camera Attempting to Seduce Borat's "15-Year-Old Daughter", After a Drunk Smashed a Street Busker's Guitar, Jack White Bought Him a Gorgeous Replacement, Sacha Baron Cohen on Rudy Giuliani's "Sexy-Time" Borat Scene: "It Is What It Is", R.I.P. Citing a family source, TMZ reports that Howe died Wednesday, May 6th, at his home in Florida from cardiac arrest. We are very sad and he will be missed, but his musical gifts will last forever. “Leaving Bad Company was not a difficult decision,” Howe said at the time. Tony Lewis, Singer of The Outfield's "Your Love", Dies at 62. “It had got to the point where nobody was contributing anything to songwriting and quite frankly, the band was getting very very sloppy live. He was always pushing.". Borat Comes to Rudy Giuliani's Defense: It Was "Innocent Sexy-Time", The Title to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat Sequel Is Absolutely Glorious, David Crosby Gets Backlash Over Dismissive Eddie Van Halen Tweet, Mick Fleetwood Joins TikTok Just to Recreate Viral "Dreams" Video: Watch, Rick Moranis Hospitalized Following Unprovoked Attack in Manhattan, Get This Mask if Being Home Alone Makes You Want to Scream, You Ain't Got No Business Going Outside Without This Mask, Remembering Eddie Van Halen’s 10 Greatest Riffs, This Pixar Movie Is Skipping Theaters and Going to Disney+. Neither Ralphs, Kirke nor the Bad Company camp responded to requests for comment about Howe's death.

I quite simply...got tired of doing all the work and then getting nothing but resentment for it.". Brian Howe, the former lead singer of English hard rock supergroup Bad Company, is dead at age 66, Billboard can confirm. Howe's manager and friend Paul Easton says the onetime Bad Company singer was not easily satisfied. He came to the U.S. and joined Ted Nugent's band in 1983 after producer Ashley Howe (no relation) heard him on a recording; Brian Howe sang on Nugent's 1984 album Penetrator, but left over business issues. In the later part of his career, Howe released several solo and launched his own record label. ", Two years later, Howe was recruited by Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke to join a rejuvenated version of Bad Company, replacing original frontman Paul Rodgers for an eight-year run that started with 1986's Fame and Fortune. That was just him. "There were songs I had written, songs Brian had written. He served that role for a decade, appearing on albums including Fame and Fortune, Dangerous Age, Holy Water, and Here Comes Trouble.