Australian singles chart:
Bad Boy for Love entered the Australian singles chart* on 14 November 1977 and peaked at #19.
Album:
The song is on Rose Tattoo which entered the Australian albums chart* on 6 November 1978 and peaked at #40.
Songwriter:
Ian Rilen
Producers:
Harry Vanda, George Young
Record label of Australian release:
Albert Productions
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Rose Tattoo formed in Sydney in 1976 by Pete Wells who wanted a tough slide guitar based band. They recorded their debut single, Bad Boy for Love with Angry Anderson on lead vocals, Mick Cocks on rhythm guitar, Ian Rilen on bass guitar, Dallas “Digger” Royall on drums and Peter Wells on slide guitar during mid-1977.
Rose Tattoo is the band’s debut self-titled album released in 1978, produced by the famous Vanda & Young team who have worked with AC/DC, The Angels and Stevie Wright. The album was released as Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaw (or Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaws) in some markets.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tattoo_(Rose_Tattoo_album)
Lyrics:
Thirty days in the county jail
let me out and i just wanted to wail
some fool tried to hold me down
i got drunk and i ripped up the town
I′m a bad boy… a bad boy for love
i’m a bad boy… a bad boy for love
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