George Thorogood and The Destroyers: The Baddest Show On Earth

Five decades, more than 8,000 performances, and over 15 million albums sold later, few bands can still rock the house like George Thorogood and The Destroyers. Formed in Delaware and based for years in Boston, where they recorded at Dimension Sound Studios, the band built a career on humor, fervor, and six-string swagger. Their signature song, Bad to the Bone, released August 9, 1982, cribbed heavily from Muddy Waters’s Mannish Boy and became a staple of classic rock radio and an MTV mainstay, thanks in part to countless commercial placements throughout the 80s and 90s. The band supported the album with a tour that saw them play all 50 states in 50 days. Thorogood has always pushed back on the idea that Bad to the Bone entirely defines him, noting the band’s catalog is full of original songs, including smash originals like I Drink Alone and Gear Jammer. A Rolling Stone reporter once described Thorogood as one guy with more moves than a burlap bag full of wolverines, a description the band still lives up to on The Baddest Show On Earth tour.