25 years ago, eight and a half years after its release, George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ Live was certified platinum for one million sales on April 21st, 1995. He’s bad! That phrase was the inspration to his song “Bad to the Bone” George Thorogood wrote “Bad to the Bone” while on his 1981 tour, which took him to each of the 50 states in 50 days. He talks about what inspired the song.
“When I grew up in Delaware, the saying was ‘bad.’ Everything was ‘bad.’ Bad meaning hip. Bad meaning groovy. If you’re from the East Coast, you’ll understand that. And
