They both acquired a passion for jazz and enjoyed acts such as Mose Allison, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus.

With the addition of Ian McLagan on keyboard and a name change to Boz People, the group secured a contract with EMI's Columbia label.

[6][7][8] Burrell's style leaned more towards jazz, whereas McLagan was into Booker T, four singles being recorded and backing band slots with Kenny Lynch and Elkie Brooks.

After Rick Kemp turned down a last-minute offer to join, Boz (who had only limited guitar-playing ability) was installed as the band's bass player with Fripp and Ian Wallace teaching him to play rather than start the search again.

During rehearsals in early 1972 the band fell apart with all members leaving due to creative restrictions imposed by Fripp as a "quality control" measure.

Although relations improved between both parties leading to an offer from the musicians to continue on in the band, Fripp had already moved on and declined to participate.

They also went on to form Snape with CCS's Alexis Korner and Peter Thorup, who had been on tour with King Crimson in the states the previous year, releasing the studio album, Accidentally Born in New Orleans, and a live album, Live on Tour in Germany.

The band debuted in 1974 with the self-titled Bad Company, which eventually went platinum, as did the 1975 follow-up, Straight Shooter and 1976's Run with the Pack.

In 1982, Burrell contributed to Jon Lord's solo album, Before I Forget, on the track "Hollywood Rock and Roll", and in 1984 he joined the short-lived Nightfly.