Bad Company ( B6 )

 The final studio album of the Howe era, 1992's Here Comes Trouble, featured the Top 40 hit "How About That" (#38) and "This Could Be the One" (#87). The album went gold. Before touring in support of Here Comes Trouble, the band added ex-Foreigner, Roxy Music and Small Faces bassist Rick Wills and Colwell, a protégé of Ralphs, was now a full-time member. The band toured with several acts, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, and recorded a live album, What You Hear Is What You Get: The Best of Bad Company on the Here Comes Trouble tour. The critically acclaimed album, released in November 1993, featured live versions of hits from both the Rodgers and Howe eras of the band.

Howe left the band in 1994. Regarding his departure from the band, Howe stated: "Leaving Bad Company was not a difficult decision. 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, along with Terry Thomas, got tired of doing all the work and then getting nothing but resentment for it from Mick and Simon." Howe went on to tour in the U.S. and UK with his own band, and to write award-winning songs, such as "Hot Tin Roof," which won the 2018 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Rock Song of the year. Howe died of a heart attack on 6 May 2020 at the age of 66 after penning and recording the song "I'm Going Home" released by his family the following month.

Robert Hart era (1994–1998)

After Howe's departure, the remaining foursome hired ex-Distance vocalist Robert Hart to take over lead vocal duties. Unlike Howe (who had a different style with his higher tenor and wide range, allowing him to sing Rodgers lower baritone songs as well as his own high tenor songs), Hart was closer in vocal range to Rodgers baritone. With Hart, the new lineup released Company of Strangers in June 1995 which came out on EastWest Records and peaked at No. 159 on the Album charts. It produced the AOR hit "Down and Dirty" (#17). The band then undertook a lengthy promotional tour of the US with Bon Jovi.

Stories Told & Untold was released in October 1996. Stories contained re-recordings of seven of Bad Company's biggest hits ("told" stories), and seven new songs ("untold" stories). 

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