Honey Child

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"Honey Child"
Honey Child.jpg
Single by Bad Company
from the album Run with the Pack
B-side "Fade Away"
ReleasedJuly 1976 (US) [1]
RecordedSeptember 1975 in Grasse, France
Genre Hard rock
Length3:15
Label Swan Song, Island
Songwriter(s) Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Boz Burrell, Simon Kirke
Producer(s) Bad Company
Bad Company singles chronology
"Young Blood"
(1976)
"Honey Child"
(1976)
"Everything I Need"
(1977)

"Honey Child" is a song by English hard rock supergroup Bad Company. The song was released as the third and final single from the band's third studio album Run with the Pack . It is one of the few Bad Company songs to be written by the entire band.

Contents

Cash Box said that the song is "hard rock ’n’ roll" with "a solid arrangement of music and voices" and that "the chorus is a good hook." [2] Record World said it was "an audience favorite" on the band's tour preceding the single release. [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Honey Child"3:15
2."Fade Away"2:54

Chart positions

Chart (1976)Peak
position
US 59 [4]

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