Badge — Bad Company badge, 1977
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1977
Badge in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number S.620-1985), dated 1977. The museum's brief description reads: Bad Company badge. White background with blue print of a woman on an eagle, with the band's logo printed in red gothic typography.
Plastic coated with metal back.. Museum description: Bad Company badge. White background with blue print of a woman on an eagle, with the band's logo printed in red gothic typography. The museum records it as Plastic coated with metal back., measuring Diameter 5.5 cm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
Bad Company are an English rock group founded in 1973, they were hugely successful in the 1970s are still performing as of 2010. Famous singles include 'Bad Company' and 'Feel Like Makin' Love'. There are three members, Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke. The wearing of badges with a particular band or artist's name on them affiliated the wearer with a certain musical genre and subculture.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- plastic, metal
- Dimensions
- Diameter 5.5 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Plastic coated with metal back.
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- Bad Company / Earl's Court ' 77
Identification
- Museum object name
- Badge
- Museum object number
- S.620-1985
- Museum system number
- O1177252
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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