Mick Ralphs, the guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the legendary ‘70s British rock bands Bad Company and Mott The Hoople, has died ...

Mick Ralphs, the English guitarist and songwriter who was a co-founder of rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died. He was 81 years old.

By 1969, Jones was kicked out the group after his drug use made him unreliable and a pair of drug arrests in England made it unlikely he could perform in America for the group's 1969 U.S tour.