Watch Paul Rodgers take a rare guitar solo as Bad Company rock The Midnight Special in 1979

More classic rock gold from The Midnight Special

Bad Company have become the latest act to be added to The Midnight Special‘s ever-growing online archive. 

The footage shows the band performing the classic Can’t Get Enough in concert, and was broadcast on April 27, 1979, just three days before Bad Company’s first North American show of the year, a Desolation Angels tour date at The Summit, a 17,000-capacity arena in Houston, TX. 

The footage, previously released by Bad Company as an official video in 2015, was shot at the band’s date at Wembley Arena in London in March 1979, a show released as part of the Live 1977 & 1979 album in 2016. It showcases a performance of Can’t Get Enough that proceeds at a slower pace than the version that appeared on their self-titled debut album five years previously, and finds frontman Paul Rodgers taking a rare guitar solo.