Free (band)

Free was a R&B-style rock band which formed in London in 1968 best known for their popular song "All Right Now". Lead singer Paul Rodgers, went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company, while lead guitarist Paul Kossoff, a much revered blues/rock guitarist, was to die tragically from drugs induced heart failure aged 25 in 1976. The band were famed for their sensational live shows and nonstop touring although their early studio albums sold slowly until the release of "Fire and Water" which featured the massive hit "All Right Now". This song helped secure them a place at the huge Isle of Wight Festival 1970 where they played to 600,000 people. Free are considered to be one of the major rock bands of the seventies along with other luminaries such as The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. As surviving band members ruefully admit, personal problems got in the way and they broke up on the brink of something big, perhaps never realising their true potential.

Discography

• Tons Of Sobs (1968)
• Free (1969)
• Fire And Water (1970)
• Highway (1970)
• Free Live! (1971) (live)
• Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu & Rabbit (1971)
• Free At Last (1972)
• Heartbreaker (1973)

Although having members of Free, it is not regarded as an official Free album.

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The following albums were issued after the band ceased recording:

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• The Free Story (1974)
• The Best of Free (1975)
• Free and Easy, Rough and Ready (1976)
• Completely Free (1982)
• All Right Now: The Best of Free (1991)
• Molten Gold: The Anthology (1994) (2 disc set)
• Free: All Right Now (1999)
• Songs of Yesterday (2000) (5 disc box set)
• Chronicles (2005) (2 disc set)