Mick Ralphs, co-founder of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, died June 23 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He was 81 and spent most of the last five years in a care home. Ralphs was born March 31, 1944, in Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, north of Gloucester. As a teen, he played with a blues-rock group called the Buddies, then joined the “mod” band the Doc Thomas Group. In a BBC Radio interview, he rec...