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Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2005
CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING the almost impossible task of filling Freddie Mercury's shoes in a new-look Queen, it's hard to imagine Paul Rodgers landing any further from ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, March 1991
The British Blues-rock bass wunderkind talks about joining John Mayall at 15, then of his years with the fabulous Free, including the writing of the iconic 'All Right Now', and Paul Kossoff's descent into drugs.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 42.8meg, total interview length: 54' 35" sound quality: ***
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Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 March 1969
...IS A REASONABLY good programme by Free, a group often dismissed as "just another blues band." ...
Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie & Friends, Free: Inglewood Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 30 August 1969
CLAPTON ADORATION ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 February 1970
A MASS of gently struggling sons of Coventry and outlying parts politely tripped over each other in the seatless main hall at Lanchester Festival on ...
Profile by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 13 June 1970
THEY MAY be new to the charts, crashing in at No. 18 with 'Alright Now', but Free are by no means newcomers on the scene. ...
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 June 1970
TO MANY wide-eyed, starstruck groups, a hit record is the culmination of their career; they can see no further. It is, for them the be-all ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 27 June 1970
A band who are slightly embarrassed by that long-awaited hit ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 4 July 1970
Beatlemania-type Free-fever grips Britain. CHRIS CHARLESWORTH reports from the front line ...
Free: Fire and Water (Island ILPS 9120)
Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970
'Fire and Water'; 'Oh I Wept'; 'Remember'; 'Heavy Load'; 'Mr Big'; 'Don't Say You Love Me'; 'All Right Now'. ...
Free: Fire and Water (Island stereo, ILPS.9120. 37s. 5d.)
Review and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 July 1970
FREE'S FASTEST-SELLER Roy Carr's track-by-track with vocalist Paul Rodgers ...
Report by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 18 July 1970
A front row view of how Swindon got FREED ...
Free's chart success makes it tough on the fans
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970
'But its the only thing that bothers us' says SIMON KIRKE ...
Free, Mott The Hoople: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 19 September 1970
FAIRFIELD Hall, Croydon, has seen some amazing scenes since it became South London's home of rock, but I doubt whether the old faithfuls at the ...
Profile by Ben Edmonds, Circus, December 1970
HARD, THUMPING rock. That's what is coming out of England these days, and if it's a trend that can't very well last too long, at ...
Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 19 December 1970
ONE OF THE criticisms levelled at Free since their final acceptance earlier this year is that many of their songs sound very much alike. With ...
Free: Highway (Island, ILPS 9138, 39s 11d)
Review and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 19 December 1970
Free have never felt so close before Paul and Andy talk to Roy Carr about the new album ...
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 13 February 1971
A HUNDRED or so enegetic dancers had surrounded the stage by the end of Free's concert at Croydon's Fairfield Hall on Saturday but I don't ...
Free: Live (Island ILPS 9160. £2.15)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 12 June 1971
Free's last album — their finest ever? ...
Free: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 19 February 1972
THE AUDIENCE WENT mad from the moment Free were introduced on Thursday at the Albert Hall. Nearly every number was greeted warmly with hoops and ...
West, Bruce & Laing, Free: Palladium, Hollywood CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1972
West, Bruce & Laing Work Out on Late '60s ...
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972
Free fall through being too complacent ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Rolling Stone, 6 July 1972
RESURRECTED FROM what seemed a permanent split, Free is making a second bid at capturing the American public's heart. ...
ELP Plus Tull in Dirty Raincoats, and How Free May Drop the Name
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 5 August 1972
WATCHING EMERSON, LAKE and Palmer play a concert with Free in the middle of a raging typhoon in Tokyo with Carl Palmer performing an incredible ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973
FREE IS AN ENGLISH quartet that toured with Blind Faith, had a big hit single, was hailed by the British press as the new Rolling ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1973
ERIC FALCON, local guppy for a major Memphis underground music radio station, claims that Free is the most exciting group around. He feels that a ...
Paul Kossoff: An Interview with Rock’s Street Crawler
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1976
THE LATE PAUL KOSSOFF, born in London, September 14, 1950, became the unsung guitar great of Free at the age of eighteen. That short-lived, but ...
Interview by Don Snowden, Phonograph Record, April 1977
THE SOUND OF Traffic's first album reverberates against barren, functional walls as gray as the overcast L.A. day outside. ...
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, April 1991
A rainy night in Shrewsbury was to alter the course of Andy Fraser's life. For it was there in 1970 that he first hummed the ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 1997
THIS INTERVIEW coincided with Paul Rodgers' 1997 album, Now, his first set of original material since Cut Loose in 1983. It was conducted in a ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, May 1998
They were young. They were feral. They played unfeasibly good rock music. And they hit the road hard. It could only end in heartbreak. Phil ...
Sleeve notes by Phil Sutcliffe, Universal Records, July 1999
"We were hell-bent on what we did. I didn’t care if I lived or died but for the band." – Paul Rodgers ...
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 2000
Well-presented 5-CD box. Three career-spanning discs of album outtakes, alternative mixes and remixes, one of live material and one of assorted Free side-projects. ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2001
Shrewdly sweet eulogy to rock'n'roll fandom ...
Retrospective by Adam Blake, Cosmik Debris, February 2004
IT'S HARD TO imagine nowadays, but in the strict context of the then-emerging British blues boom, Free were a punk band, and Tons Of Sobs ...
Retrospective by Nick Coleman, The Independent, 22 September 2006
Thirty years after drugs killed Free's guitarist, the band are back in vogue. They just won't talk to each other. ...
"Your Average Bloke Chatting Up Your Average Chick": Free's 'All Right Now'
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2007
'ALL RIGHT NOW' is one of the quintessential cock-rockers – a cruder, more pub-rockish 'Whole Lotta Love'. It's the sound of the longhaired male predator ...
Obituary by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2013
ANDY JOHNS lived rock'n'roll, whether that meant delicately dangling microphones over a banister at country house studio Headley Grange to get the sound of John ...
see also Back Street Crawler
see also Bad Company
see also Andy Fraser
see also Paul Kossoff
see also Paul Rodgers
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