Oh, we (I was born in 2001) are also lucky people, because we were born after that time, and thanks to the Internet, CDs and streaming we can discover these great classics
No thinking required. It is, by consensus, by acclaim, and without a doubt, one of the all-time great rock songs. Signature tune by a killer band with a helluva front man.
@@gilliankingston8259 at least we've got u tube to watch all our great music on, it would be hell if we just had to ensure todays total rubbish day in day out.
Paul Rodgers was good, yes, but for me its Andy Fraser all the way. If I could play bass I;d want to be able to play like that. FREE were a great band - bigger than the sum of the parts, none of them quite so good after breaking up.
Dont know how the audience can sit so still listening to this amazing song. Im 68 years young now and jumping about shaking my head like i did when i was a teenager. Fab band
Yeah, I know what you mean...I was watching Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra..... Concerto for Group & Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargeant, recently. (Three movements by Jon Lord......It's on YT)(1969) Royal Albert Hall. The vocals by Ian Gillen will raise the hairs on your neck....believe me. The public were amazingly calm and sat so still..... (A few exceptions!) They were rather subdued to say the least....(lots of cigarette smoke though!) The crescendo would have had me on my feet...back then..... and now, even at 70! (But what a blessed relief...no idiotic waving of cell phones! ) I thoroughly suggest you watch it Paul, you will thank me later, I'm sure! Cheers.
Paul Ringwood, I know the feeling well, we come from the same time my friend 60s 70s music will live through the echo,s of time, teaching my grandkids the music of my life, their get it thank the GOD,S OF ROCK AND ROLL, BLUE,S . PEACE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND.✌️✌️✌️😎😎😎🏴🏴🏴🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
i got to see Bob Dylan in 1966 at the TV studio as the audience ( i was 9 , my aunt worked there ) and it was drilled into us if we got up for any reason we would be escorted out of the studio , no whistling no singing unless prompted by the signs , i guess it was the same there
If only the audience knew what kind of music and TV would be on TV 45 years later they would have made more of seeing a fabulous live performance like this.
I was 20 years old when this song came out and had just bought my first car. Every time I got in it to drive All Right Now would play on the radio. So now at 71 years old when I hear this song I go right back to the memory of driving my first car and I'm 20 years old again...
My 1st car didn't have a radio. I installed an 8 track tape player, hooked it up so I didn't need the key to play it, and connected a couple of old box speakers that came with a house stereo that crapped out on me. The car was a station wagon so room was not a problem. Sounded pretty good as it turned out.
In the 76 years of my existence this is the best rock track ever. Never tire of listening to it. Vocals, exceptional guitar work , outstanding drumming and base playing combined with a driving passionate performance and overall tone. Simply SUPERB
That is what I would call gifted talent ! From the school of hard knocks 60 & 70 has been the best time for rock & popular music !? Now the music has no soul ❤❤❤❤
It’s unbelievable to think that this classic is over 50 years old! Paul Rodgers has no equal as a rock vocalist, his voice is like a miracle, it’s as if he was chosen by God to sing rock songs! What can you say about Paul Kossoff? His tone and vibrato is pure genius, and you can tell that he inspired so many guitarists, RIP Koss. Andy Fraser wrote the music to this song, apparently in 10-15 minutes and Rodgers the lyrics! Incredible that they were all so young here, and Andy, the youngest had only just turned 18, and was already a phenomenal bassist! Simon Kirke’s drumming is just mind blowing and powerful! Simon is 20 (almost 21) Paul Rodgers was still only 20, Kossoff 19 and as mentioned Fraser 18. That’s insane to be this good when so young, Free were surely one of the greatest lineups of all time!
I have a little story.Simon and occasionally Koss would turn up at a hang out in Richmond called L'auberge,it was a good cafe that many 'heads'frequented.You could always score there.(it's a Nandos now next to the cinema.Free's first single was "Broad Daylight" which a couple of us clubbed together and bought to put on the jukebox.We'd wait till we saw Simon arriving and put it on,only to be told he couldn't stand the record and the rest of the band didn't think much of it either .It failed to chart.Their next single was"All Right Now" and the rest is history.They never stopped recording and touring and we lost touch with them.Koss was actually seeing a friend of mine called Angie in Richmond when he sadly died on a plane coming back from America.
Well alrite now!! how kool! I just downloaded the words and chords to this great song...thought I'd see if anyone has been watching this great video from the good ol days..so ya, we have just watched it..its July 25th, I"m in Australia, but from the U.S. ( Idaho), thanks for asking the question, these type of songs are what I grew up with!!! Long live the oldies R & R!!!
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They must of been really high ..the guitar playing is shocking from a really guitar guitarists so many mistakes and missed notes on this performance and the solo was way to late like he forgot in was. Coming up ...
@@gatrick1 That's how it's played..yeah stoned 👍but play a augmented or diminished scale,do non musicians get it? Zappa fans would! Stay cool, rock on!!!
Free and Led Zeppelin were the best thing to happen in the 70s. I was a kid then and am so grateful to experience such an awesome band. Paul is a fantastic blues guy, the best. He was 20 here. We will never have music like this again. Rip 😢😢 Paul Kosoff ❤❤❤❤
@@muzza2962 Hi, I totally agree with you. Paul still rocks. Wish him and JPP would have kept going with the firm as a great band. Robert Plant, who coincidentally lives right by me, sings blue grass stuff now and is nowhere near as good. Paul still cuts the mustard for me x
@@conanhayle The who were OK and Wont get Fooled again was my fave of theirs but I adored Jimmy Page as a kid and Paul Rodgers. I was also into Thin Lizzy. Wow my mother hated them.
Talk about influential. This song shook everything up and changed rock and roll. It inspired thousands to learn bass, thousands to learn guitar, and thousands of singers.
You're overstating its influence. This is after The Kinks, after The Who, after Zeppelin's 1st album, after CREAM WHITE ROOM, and of course after THE BEATLES. Chillax newbs. This is one of hundreds and hundreds of hard rock songs by 1970.
Holy shit, this is incredible. I've taken this song for granted for decades but seeing these guys play it live is a revelation. This is a formidable band.
If I didn't know better, both Andy on Bass & Paul K on Guitar looked high & flying just a jammin on their instruments while Simon was beating those skins like they owed him some money. Of course the vocals by Paul Rodgers were stellar. Great live rendition. Real music made by real musicians.
This performance has so much raw energy, blows me away. Plus Paul Rodgers has one of the best rock/blues voices I have ever heard. Totally live, no overdubs. The early 70''s was a very unique time period.
Hello friends around the world veri sad for the dead of Taylor Hawkins front the bottom of my heart I give to my son a big hug and say how much I love my friends I recommended that you give to the people really loved 🤘long life to ROCK
I am 65, living in the boondocks in France and I'm sure the people that drive by are all deaf from hearing my albums from that era blasting out my window every weekend!!!!
No digital modlers no auto tune no samplers! Tube amps, cords, Les Paul and real musicians making original music to people sitting in a place where u can reach out and touch the band. Man that's so cool. Forget stadium rock lololol
What a clueless ignorant incorrect post. God help us all. No wonder rap took over. The people who liked classic rock were not the brightest. Punk drummer lol. Good Heavens.
Unfortunately 99% of the audience had no idea that they were watching four of the most talented kids ever to grace a stage. Insane talent of which we will never see the likes again.
Saw Paul Rogers leap up and landed on both feet to stand on a piano in Phoenix in the 1990's while performing this. His voice and physicality blew my mind!
I'm 56 and this almost brought me to tears.A lot of my friends from those days gone by are gone too.I'm just happy to have had them and this music in my life.Many very happy memories!!!
@ChiefShittingBull I would love to go back knowing what I know now and have a go at it all again. I grew up in Southern California seeing all the groups at concerts that cost like $10.00 and heard a lot of the groups when they were starting on the Strip Long Beach Auditorium Long Beach other concert place The Forum Santa Monica Civic Paladium Troubadour The Whiskey McCabes and even Santa Monica College and other places.
Same here Keith, I'm 56, and All of the coolest people I hung with, uncles, cousins,and friends where usually older than me and they're All gone, I hung with them because they loved the same music I did.
The way Andy Fraser rocks side to side ~ front to back while playing the bass is so darn cool, especially with his classy outfit and hat. Can’t believe he’s only 18yrs young here…Omg. We grew them talented back then!!! 💗
So true. No auto tune. Just pure raw talent. I’m so glad I grew up in the late sixties to seventies. So many incredible bands all with their own amazing sound.
And that’s saying something - but true. If I were to try to explain Rock and Roll to an alien - I would play this - and say this - this is Rock and Roll. 🍎❤️💋🎼🍺🌿🥃🎸🥹
I mean we got bad company out of it all, I always looked at Free as an early version of that band, kinda like how The yardbirds turned into Led Zeppelin
When I was a radio officer in the British Merchant Navy back in the midd sixties, the three deck cadets and I would have FREE evenings where we listened to Free on my portable record player.. those were good days…🙂👍
IM LOOKING for 80s song nappers Have not found 1 yet on this song, But this was 1970 lol , You would be shocked to know how many 70s songs are claimed by 80s KIDS
Paul Rodgers is still my no.1 favourite vocalist, everybody loved Free. The simple romantic lyrics; the song was a hit twice in the UK from 1969 and also accompanied a new car tv advert.
Yes I am proud to be British. We produced the best bands in the 1970s. Free, Zep, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Bad Company etc. An awesome time to be alive. There will never be music this great again, ever ❤
@@marywhite7341 Wait, British rock was great but they copied us Americans plus we had Jimi Hendrix and dont forget bands like The Allman Brothers, Santana who musically would rival anything coming out of Britain that time. Not to mention all the gospel singers and r&b , motown at the time. American music has and will always reign supreme.
The Concert Rocker musicians, Played HARD, break allot of strings, sticks and bass strings playing, these days players, barly touch the strings rely on amp power.
@@deanladue5367 Get real.. Clapton played miles above what Kossoff could ever deliver, years before.. on Beano and Cream albums. Eric´s vibrato - while we´re at it - was and still is untouchable. Kossoff, Green .. 2nd tier to EC, Jeff Beck and Page. All are not huntsmen, who can blow a huntman´s horn... you see ?
So true Thomas !!! Free is still Fantastic !!! Check out ," Doesn't Matter Where Or When ," an original rocking song and video on my site . Thanks Adam Holtz
Oh please I grew. Up at14/15! Years old with them I lived with my auntie she hated my music. Free , Grand funk Railroad. And ozzy Osborn with Black Sabbath and she kicked me out at 16/2\
P. K. was a Unicorn!! Without question he had the deadliest vibrato in rock….even to this day!! The fact that he played like that on a ponderous LP neck is even more amazing! Loved that band!! 🤟🤟
Paul Rodgers, the front man's frontman. Been a huge fan of the voice since 1970. Paul Kossoff a classically trained guitarist. Even Eric Clapton was in awe of his vibrato style. Andy Fraser, the Guvnor bass player. Simon Kirke, a no nonsense rock drummer. Free one of the most underated bands ever. I loved them, still do 50 years on.
It's March 22, 2022 and I just heard this live version for the first time - absolutely stunning!! Simon Kirke with a great drum part and totally fantastic snare sound - the tone on the guitar and bass are also astoundingly good! And Paul Rodgers bringing the vocals to a new level - amazing. What a performance! - this band has more energy than the sun!!
Paul Rogers is the greatest singer still alive on this planet to this day. He never lost it. He still sounds just as good as he did decades ago. Amazing!!
It took me decades to realize it but this, ladies and gentlemen, is the finest voice from a generation of fine singers, and to this day is unmatched in raw intensity and deep-down blues/soul emotion.
@@brendakeller9366 Robert plants voice was mostly studio enhanced by Jimmy Page! I saw The mighty Zep 3 times live & plant was all over the place live! Paul Rodgers in my opinion is 100 over times a much better singer. The best rock & blues singer on the planet...
I was too young for concerts in 1970 , but I did get to see Paul Rodgers live in Houston , Tx. with Bad Company in 1978 and after 300 plus Rock concerts under my belt , I still say that he had the best live vocals of any lead singer in Rock hands down !
RIP the two members of Free Paul Kossoff (September 14, 1950 - March 19, 1976), aged 25 Andy Fraser (July 3, 1952 - March 16, 2015), aged 62 You both will be remembered as legends.
This has got to be one of my top 5 favorite rock vocal performances ever. Amazing. And the band around the singer could not be any tighter. Great, great performance.
Rock and roll will never die, it will be played on and on. The 70's was the best error for Rock n roll music ever, we were lucky to enjoy the best error of music! Rock roll will never die!🤘🎶
damn, 60s and 70s rock n roll is just too fuckin good. i wasnt born until damn near the 90s and even I think 60s and 70s was the pinnacle of rock music.
The longer I live and read rock autobiographies and hear interviews of some of my favorite musicians, the more I appreciate the massive influence of this band.
Oh us lucky people who grew up in the greatest era of music!
AND THE WOMEN!!! M.O'B
Oh, we (I was born in 2001) are also lucky people, because we were born after that time, and thanks to the Internet, CDs and streaming we can discover these great classics
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The fuckin BEST MUSIC HANDS ✋✋ DOWN!!!!!😝😝
@@Liz-g3d CAN'T BEAT IT!!! M.O'B
My God I’m so glad I’m old enough now to have been young enough back then…..65 and still f…king rockin….Are you ?
Old rockers never die, they just keep rollin' along. 66 here. Rock on!
@@wendybutler1681 Yep, 73 here and still love it!!!!
Old rock and roller too but I ❤it
63 and still listening to great rock.
68 and still rocking 😊
Raises the hair on my arms EVERY TIME I HEAR IT
1st time I heard it I was having a bad trip.
I knew then I was hearing greatness.
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Not too old to be rockin this right now!!! Lovin it!!❤
I think this is one of the all-time greatest rock songs.
I think also.
No thinking required. It is, by consensus, by acclaim, and without a doubt, one of the all-time great rock songs. Signature tune by a killer band with a helluva front man.
I definitely ranks. I wish some band would come up with one like that right now. Not likely.
I agree always liked this song. It has it all
Just started learning the guitar part it’s got intricate chords and great solo
At 66 years old I'll say that raw cranked up Amp sound is missed by many!
Damn right
helll yea!
Nope I still crank it up🎼🎸🎼💥😎
I have a Studio / and want to play with a group
the birth of BadCompany, God bless
Free were far superior to Bad Company. It's like comparing The Beatles to Wings.
@@davidc209Great music is great music. Free and the Beatles didn’t survive as bands. I like all four.
Hell Yeah, {Paul Rodgers
Most epic riff ever.
I'm 70 and still loveing it. How lucky to be born in the right era
You got that right,Janet.I used to hear this song at the Foosball parlor practically every time I went there .70's ,greatest decade ever.
And to watch them morph into Bad Company & make so many fantastic songs? We were blessed to have been present for their R&R brilliance!
@@crazycatlady4551pretty crazy that some of the members of Free then form Bad Company
Amen sister amen
And how lucky we are to be able to access these performances with just the click of a button , which makes our last years bearable .
The great Paul Rodgers & a proper English rock in roll band called Free. Can you dig it in 2023?
Digging it!
2024 too! :-)
I dig it the most baby❤️
Paul Rodgers voice ….. forever !!!!
I can dig it in 2024. Rock And Roll!
Man do I miss this era of music.
I'd go back in a heartbeat.
It was the best era of music these years of music nothing like it since
@@andymatthews7617If I could skip that stint in the Army I would go back. The music was soooo good.
@@user-se7vt5ow4e ABSOLUTELY, AT LEAST YOU MADE IT THROUGH THOUGH MATE, WELL DONE, KEEP ENJOYING WONDERFUL SOUNDS.🤘
It aint goin no 'were jeff, i guarentee it....Men coat factory....
So little of history is actually even recorded. We are thankful that this history was recorded.
OMG, all those teenagers in the audience are today SENIOR CITIZENS. OMG, where the hell did time go?
I'm in my seventies now ( a senior citizen) and i danced till the early hrs back then and still do !!
We're still teenagers, just our bodies have aged.
OMG ! I'm 56 and I'm feeling every single day !
Mortgages and such… still rockin though!
Also some are running government
No pedals, no delays, not even reverb - and he still sounds massive and fills such a wide sonic frequency. Paul Kosoff - truly incredible talent
I'm 71 and I still love them!!!
a family friend of mine was in a band with him!
Guess that's a Les Paul and a Marshall/Orange (Marshall with a bit more top) for you
The only other musician with such talent would be Dimebag Darrell.
It sounded like the drummer was using a double bass pedal for a second. Maybe he was just using Bonzo's technique.
i`m 68 and still goosebump when i hear this after 50 Years. Music without bullshit as autotune , firework.....
JUST BLOODY BRILLIANT, TOTAL TALENT.
I agree 100% with you, I just turned 65 and love this, still listening to the great tunes of yesterday's
@@angieoconnell1666 my birthday was on october 5th, I was 64, what day was yours.
Mine was September 20/ 1958
@@angieoconnell1666 happy birthday angie, hope you have many more, stay well, and stay safe.😊
70’s music will last forever. I feel privileged to have grown up listening to it.
we had the best music EVER.
I was 14 when this song came out. Only girl in San Francisco projects who loved Free & CCR. We have good taste. And never get old. .... Jeanie
Yes, we were spoilt, which makes it all the more painful to hear what's on offer these days👍🌹
@@gilliankingston8259 at least we've got u tube to watch all our great music on, it would be hell if we just had to ensure todays total rubbish day in day out.
@@andymatthews7617 PERIOD ! 💪👍
Why are these great rock songs still fantastic?
This is real music.
This is one of those songs that never, ever, fails to make me smile. 50+ years later it's still one of the best rock vocal performances I know.
let's enjoy!
Bring back the Woodstock's Vibs Mind's Spirit!
Paul Rodgers was good, yes, but for me its Andy Fraser all the way. If I could play bass I;d want to be able to play like that. FREE were a great band - bigger than the sum of the parts, none of them quite so good after breaking up.
@@MisterBethany Well stated.
Hey A Dude this A Chick right on sweet
Dont know how the audience can sit so still listening to this amazing
song. Im 68 years young now and jumping about shaking my head
like i did when i was a teenager. Fab band
Yeah, I know what you mean...I was watching Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra..... Concerto for Group & Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargeant, recently.
(Three movements by Jon Lord......It's on YT)(1969) Royal Albert Hall.
The vocals by Ian Gillen will raise the hairs on your neck....believe me.
The public were amazingly calm and sat so still..... (A few exceptions!)
They were rather subdued to say the least....(lots of cigarette smoke though!)
The crescendo would have had me on my feet...back then..... and now, even at 70!
(But what a blessed relief...no idiotic waving of cell phones! )
I thoroughly suggest you watch it Paul, you will thank me later, I'm sure! Cheers.
Paul Ringwood, I know the feeling well, we come from the same time my friend 60s 70s music will live through the echo,s of time, teaching my grandkids the music of my life, their get it thank the GOD,S OF ROCK AND ROLL, BLUE,S . PEACE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND.✌️✌️✌️😎😎😎🏴🏴🏴🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
i got to see Bob Dylan in 1966 at the TV studio as the audience ( i was 9 , my aunt worked there ) and it was drilled into us if we got up for any reason we would be escorted out of the studio , no whistling no singing unless prompted by the signs , i guess it was the same there
If only the audience knew what kind of music and TV would be on TV 45 years later they would have made more of seeing a fabulous live performance like this.
@@dimboolabladeworks7927 didnt know that. Thanks
I was 20 years old when this song came out and had just bought my first car. Every time I got in it to drive All Right Now would play on the radio. So now at 71 years old when I hear this song I go right back to the memory of driving my first car and I'm 20 years old again...
Beautiful
THANKS MATE-I thoughti was just me-lol TOMMY27
My 1st car didn't have a radio. I installed an 8 track tape player, hooked it up so I didn't need the key to play it, and connected a couple of old box speakers that came with a house stereo that crapped out on me. The car was a station wagon so room was not a problem. Sounded pretty good as it turned out.
@@jefffriedmann1482 My Generation
Love this comment and so relate! Good music like this-correction-Great music- brings us back to our past and our fond memories of yesterday ❤
Same here!!67 and still rockin!!! Thank You Lord!!!
64 and having it large. 🎸
I am 73 and still rocking till the end. A true classic video!
Right on 👍 66 here 💪💪
Me too🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Imam 63,to je muzika moje mladosti, slušati ću dok dišem! 💞
The drummer's working his butt off and pounding the hell out of the drums.
Banging
Simon Kirke
he's probably on dope.
In the 76 years of my existence this is the best rock track ever. Never tire of listening to it. Vocals, exceptional guitar work , outstanding drumming and base playing combined with a driving passionate performance and overall tone. Simply SUPERB
Music from the GODS, jim.
And Paul is insanely good as a front man.
Couldn't agree more it has the works with extra fries on the side and the louder the better.
That is what I would call gifted talent ! From the school of hard knocks 60 & 70 has been the best time for rock & popular music !? Now the music has no soul ❤❤❤❤
❤ lindo my friend
It’s unbelievable to think that this classic is over 50 years old!
Paul Rodgers has no equal as a rock vocalist, his voice is like a miracle, it’s as if he was chosen by God to sing rock songs!
What can you say about Paul Kossoff? His tone and vibrato is pure genius, and you can tell that he inspired so many guitarists, RIP Koss.
Andy Fraser wrote the music to this song, apparently in 10-15 minutes and Rodgers the lyrics! Incredible that they were all so young here, and Andy, the youngest had only just turned 18, and was already a phenomenal bassist!
Simon Kirke’s drumming is just mind blowing and powerful!
Simon is 20 (almost 21) Paul Rodgers was still only 20, Kossoff 19 and as mentioned Fraser 18.
That’s insane to be this good when so young, Free were surely one of the greatest lineups of all time!
Heute würden die das mit einem Computer machen . Furchtbar 😢😢😢
@@wernergitschel8173
Ja, so wahr, es ist komplett gefälscht.
Yessir!
I have a little story.Simon and occasionally Koss would turn up at a hang out in Richmond called L'auberge,it was a good cafe that many 'heads'frequented.You could always score there.(it's a Nandos now next to the cinema.Free's first single was "Broad Daylight" which a couple of us clubbed together and bought to put on the jukebox.We'd wait till we saw Simon arriving and put it on,only to be told he couldn't stand the record and the rest of the band didn't think much of it either .It failed to chart.Their next single was"All Right Now" and the rest is history.They never stopped recording and touring and we lost touch with them.Koss was actually seeing a friend of mine called Angie in Richmond when he sadly died on a plane coming back from America.
Steve Perry's voice is the best rock voice!
July 2024! Who's listening with me.....One of the greatest tracks ever....🔥🔥🔥🔥
I still know all the words! 50 years later!
Well alrite now!! how kool! I just downloaded the words and chords to this great song...thought I'd see if anyone has been watching this great video from the good ol days..so ya, we have just watched it..its July 25th, I"m in Australia, but from the U.S. ( Idaho), thanks for asking the question, these type of songs are what I grew up with!!! Long live the oldies R & R!!!
@@ELLISGIRRARDMUSIC-sv1txin France, we apreciate this true rocknroll. 45 years ago, i had listen to it. Now, the same pleasure too.
Chicago
@@nicolasrobineau7509 Free, over the Olympics? Me too.
I am so glad that I lived through the 60's and 70's. We were blessed with kick ass music!
ME TOO!
❤❤❤ pareil je suis très fière et j écoute encore à 74 ans 😂😂 ❤❤❤
Im 63, ive had millennials & gen Z's tell me we had the best music. Amen!
I'm 52 and proud of it 🤘
I'm 60, and I just gotta say, "You bet your sweet ass we did!" Nuff said...
Amen to that!
The truth is spoken!
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You know it’s a great band when the live version sounds better than the album cut, Raw and unfiltered just damn!
Jesus Christ loves you
They must of been really high ..the guitar playing is shocking from a really guitar guitarists so many mistakes and missed notes on this performance and the solo was way to late like he forgot in was. Coming up ...
@@gatrick1 That's how it's played..yeah stoned 👍but play a augmented or diminished scale,do non musicians get it? Zappa fans would! Stay cool, rock on!!!
@@ben2808 So does Frank Zappa ❤️
The isle of wight version is the best
Hell Yeah! Rock It!! ❤❤❤❤
I was 16 in ‘70 and Free was like Zeppelin…a daily dose of blues rock for me.
This song never gets old. One of the great rock and blues anthems. And Paul Rodgers, even today he still has that voice.
I was just about to write amost those exact words. His voice is amazing. I meant to write this as a reply to Patrick Insulani.
Fabulous
A Masterpiece that will definitely remain at the top of charts!
Luminous Unforgettable!
Worth its weight!👍👏
saw them at the van dyke plymouth 1970 magic
Saw it featured on a show & I HAD to find it on youtube. So much soul!
I'm 71 now....but does this song bring back memories! We were one lucky generation! 😂❤
I'm 69 year old and I play lead guitar and sing in a great cover band, and I watch this it reminds me what I feel in love with in the first place.
Free and Led Zeppelin were the best thing to happen in the 70s. I was a kid then and am so grateful to experience such an awesome band. Paul is a fantastic blues guy, the best. He was 20 here. We will never have music like this again. Rip 😢😢 Paul Kosoff ❤❤❤❤
The bass guy died 2015 at62. Paul and Simon are still active and unlike so many Paul’s voice is still pretty good.
@@muzza2962 Hi, I totally agree with you. Paul still rocks. Wish him and JPP would have kept going with the firm as a great band. Robert Plant, who coincidentally lives right by me, sings blue grass stuff now and is nowhere near as good. Paul still cuts the mustard for me x
Oh wow,🙏🙏❤❤
dont forget THE WHO ,
@@conanhayle The who were OK and Wont get Fooled again was my fave of theirs but I adored Jimmy Page as a kid and Paul Rodgers. I was also into Thin Lizzy. Wow my mother hated them.
Talk about influential. This song shook everything up and changed rock and roll. It inspired thousands to learn bass, thousands to learn guitar, and thousands of singers.
You left out drums 😂
You're overstating its influence. This is after The Kinks, after The Who, after Zeppelin's 1st album, after CREAM WHITE ROOM, and of course after THE BEATLES. Chillax newbs. This is one of hundreds and hundreds of hard rock songs by 1970.
And the drummer was the inspiration for Animal on the Muppet show 😅
@@kaydavis6752
I've heard that claim applied to at least 10 different drummers.
Ronnie Van Zant heard this song, and immediately put together a band
And became the
Lead singer of
Lynrd Skynrd...
And the rest is history!!
Holy shit, this is incredible. I've taken this song for granted for decades but seeing these guys play it live is a revelation. This is a formidable band.
Same. Just watched that Skynard and the Allman Brothers were influenced by these guys so here I am
me too man
If I didn't know better, both Andy on Bass & Paul K on Guitar looked high & flying just a jammin on their instruments while Simon was beating those skins like they owed him some money. Of course the vocals by Paul Rodgers were stellar. Great live rendition. Real music made by real musicians.
Ha ha, like they owed him money!
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These guys were really young when they broke big. Paul Rodgers was 20 in this video. Bassist Andy Fraser was 18. Phenomenal talents.
Genius
The guitarist was 19/20 in the video as well.... he would die just 6 years later.
This was in June 1970, so Frasier is still 17, and Kossoff is 19 here.
who was the drummer he lost 5 pounds playing this 1 song lol@@jdmresearch
This performance has so much raw energy, blows me away. Plus Paul Rodgers has one of the best rock/blues voices I have ever heard. Totally live, no overdubs. The early 70''s was a very unique time period.
How this dudes realized that when now see this video of more of 45 years ago and have been see that a more of the greatest band in the planet
They played with such intensity and commitment, a joy to witness
Thanks for the 70 likes, just broke my personal record 😃.
Hello friends around the world veri sad for the dead of Taylor Hawkins front the bottom of my heart I give to my son a big hug and say how much I love my friends I recommended that you give to the people really loved 🤘long life to ROCK
@@poncep5222 im shocked that a grown man, (Taylor) would do that to himself, truly unbelievable
My father's funeral song. Beautifully done.
Wowee
Good for him
Odd choice.
Unusual, but good for him.
Excellent!!
Right on! Just what he wanted to hear on the way to RIP! Thx for sharing. Great memories is all we have sometimes. Rock on!
No foul language, no berating people just pure talent!
They got that Detroit Grit Legendary. 🍷
I am 65, living in the boondocks in France and I'm sure the people that drive by are all deaf from hearing my albums from that era blasting out my window every weekend!!!!
@@dagmarriou8364 Keep blasting ❤️❤️❤️
No digital modlers no auto tune no samplers! Tube amps, cords, Les Paul and real musicians making original music to people sitting in a place where u can reach out and touch the band. Man that's so cool. Forget stadium rock lololol
Fuckin' shit hot!!
This has got to be one of the most classic songs ever. The opening riff, the groove, and Paul Rogers voice..just amazing
Some pair of trousers on him as well 😂😂😂😂
It's speed up just a wee bit, which actually detracts slightly from the groove, IMHO......
The riff is literally two chords
..and the lyrics were crap....
@@gavinkolner1505 Doesn't matter at all. It is memorable and distinctive and it was their own.
This is the magic that happens when a metal guitarist, a punk drummer, an R&B bassist and an extremely versatile voice come together
Metal guitarist? .. LOL. nope.
Metal?? Kossof?? Nah, he was the smoothest, rock&roll/ blues guitarist of his era. A legend.
Punk drummer? There was no "punk" in 1970. Quit making shite up.
What a clueless ignorant incorrect post. God help us all. No wonder rap took over. The people who liked classic rock were not the brightest. Punk drummer lol. Good Heavens.
@@kbrewski1exactly. Rewrite history for yourself!
And 50 years later it still kicks ass.
50 years, God, that is depressing. What happened?
THIS...is a rock song.
Indeed!
One of my favorites!!
that's the 70s......I think they influenced Chili Peppers a bit....
This IS "FREE", can not find a better definition than this video.
Unfortunately 99% of the audience had no idea that they were watching four of the most talented kids ever to grace a stage. Insane talent of which we will never see the likes again.
Saw Paul Rogers leap up and landed on both feet to stand on a piano in Phoenix in the 1990's while performing this. His voice and physicality blew my mind!
My friend John was there watching them at the first Glastonbury in a barn
Surely, everyone who saw this would have been enthralled,
There were far more talented bands, these guys are talented, but not the most talented.
Needed a little weed.
I'm 56 and this almost brought me to tears.A lot of my friends from those days gone by are gone too.I'm just happy to have had them and this music in my life.Many very happy memories!!!
@ChiefShittingBull I would love to go back knowing what I know now and have a go at it all again. I grew up in Southern California seeing all the groups at concerts that cost like $10.00 and heard a lot of the groups when they were starting on the Strip Long Beach Auditorium Long Beach other concert place The Forum Santa Monica Civic Paladium Troubadour The Whiskey McCabes and even Santa Monica College and other places.
Same here Keith, I'm 56, and All of the coolest people I hung with, uncles, cousins,and friends where usually older than me and they're All gone, I hung with them because they loved the same music I did.
I went to the same clubs and arenas saw b.o.c. and pat Travers 4 6 but at ucla pauly pavilion
FOR REALLY HONEY. We're survivors THAT got to see kick ass rock n roll
@@monatoney3474 I'm 75 been there did that. It was the gratest of times. Long live.SD&RR
Doesn't matter what year your watching this.
if you reading this you have great taste of music!
Yeah!
dimitrispearljam I love Free, too!
Paul would have become one of the all time great guitarists!
We know CLASS when it sings and plays ❤️
Thank you...
The best era in music and entertainment. The generation after the 70s wouldn't know how brilliant it was.
Paul Rogers left middlesbrough teeside as a penniless youth to head for the big dream in London. I think he made it .👍
You can take a git out of yorkshire, but never the yorkshire out of the git
Travellin' in style he is......;)
I still love him and I’m 60 ...
@@DMSProduktions Middlesborough is in north yorkshire innit
@@Pighood Soz, I thought it was Newcastle! I only know where OURS is! LOL!
The way Andy Fraser rocks side to side ~ front to back while playing the bass is so darn cool, especially with his classy outfit and hat. Can’t believe he’s only 18yrs young here…Omg. We grew them talented back then!!!
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BRILLIANT BANDS AND BRILLIANT MUSIC,I'd go back in a heartbeat.
andy wrote this when he was 17.. wünderkind
@@talpajamhe was the author?? Wow I had no idea! Fabulous, bassists~always loved the bass & the operator, they have great rhythm
This was before his birthday in 1970, so he's actually 17 here.
@@talpajamtook 10 minutes to write apparently.
One of the best bands of the 70s
So true. No auto tune. Just pure raw talent. I’m so glad I grew up in the late sixties to seventies. So many incredible bands all with their own amazing sound.
No auto tune here...just raw talent. 100% pure.
This was 27 years before Auto-Tune was invented !
@@andyelliott8027 before snare drums were able to not sound like cake tins too
And that Paul Rogers is still one of the best singers today and still bringing his incredible music to the world!
One of THE most iconic voices in the history of rock and so envied by the majority of his peers.
That's why He became Pages Frontman.
Could not of said it better!
Even with all his Bad Company success, this is still Paul's best song. Great stuff.
UNIQUE VOICE, SHEER CLASS.
And that’s saying something - but true. If I were to try to explain Rock and Roll to an alien - I would play this - and say this - this is Rock and Roll. 🍎❤️💋🎼🍺🌿🥃🎸🥹
Dadgummit! I'm amazed at the wonderful rock n roll stories and members of different bands that were all
So very talented.
Paul roger
Can we give some love to the drummer!?
That Dude is earning his money for real😂❤
And he would go on to raise three beautiful and talented daughters.
Simon Kirke! He, and Paul went on to form the inimitable Bad Company! What a blessed evolution!
It's pretty likely he's the person that the muppet character Animal is based from.
Dam right,
Always loved Simon’s pounding on those drums. 😁
Paul Rogers is smiling towards the end of the song because he knows he has a killer band! It’s a shame it didn’t last longer. They were really good! 😊
I saw free at festival hall melbourne in 1971 along with deep purple!
I mean we got bad company out of it all, I always looked at Free as an early version of that band, kinda like how The yardbirds turned into Led Zeppelin
He's smiling because they mess up in the timing to get back after the solo break and the drumming saved it ...
@@kipleyjazztrio Interesting mate, how can yo tell that?
When I was a radio officer in the British Merchant Navy back in the midd sixties, the three deck cadets and I would have FREE evenings where we listened to Free on my portable record player.. those were good days…🙂👍
Still one of the greatest lead vocalists of all time. What a voice.
IM LOOKING for 80s song nappers Have not found 1 yet on this song, But this was 1970 lol , You would be shocked to know how many 70s songs are claimed by 80s KIDS
The Hindu Times
Rod Stewart, no less, agreed with you
He's right up there with Steve Perry. Hall of fame voices.
Paul Rodgers is still my no.1 favourite vocalist, everybody loved Free. The simple romantic lyrics; the song was a hit twice in the UK from 1969 and also accompanied a new car tv advert.
One of the greatest live performances ever caught on film.
AWESOME.
One of the best rock riffs of all time and it's British
One of the best Les Paul songs of all time too.
Yes I am proud to be British. We produced the best bands in the 1970s. Free, Zep, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, Bad Company etc. An awesome time to be alive. There will never be music this great again, ever ❤
What does that have anything to do with it brother God doesn't see in colour man get with the times
Blues influenced rock, even better.
@@marywhite7341 Wait, British rock was great but they copied us Americans plus we had Jimi Hendrix and dont forget bands like The Allman Brothers, Santana who musically would rival anything coming out of Britain that time. Not to mention all the gospel singers and r&b , motown at the time. American music has and will always reign supreme.
You'll Never See or Hear That Magic Again,we had no idea it would ever end
Thank gawd for RUclips etc
Nothing lasts forever of course but I didn't think it would end so soon.
I'm 63 and I have had the honor to hear the best rock ever assembled in all my years. From the Beatles to some of today's rock! Keep eockin!
Paul Kossoff was an amazing guitarist. The vibrato he creates on his Les Paul is incredible.
Taken to young, TRAGIC.
@andymatthews7617 seems to happen everytime I like the Guitarist: Hideto Matsumoto, Paul Kossoff, Randy Rhodes; too young, rest in peace.
@@Lofirainbows all the great ones go first, 😥
The Concert Rocker musicians, Played HARD, break allot of strings, sticks and bass strings playing, these days players, barly touch the strings rely on amp power.
@@deanladue5367 Get real.. Clapton played miles above what Kossoff could ever deliver, years before.. on Beano and Cream albums. Eric´s vibrato - while we´re at it - was and still is untouchable. Kossoff, Green .. 2nd tier to EC, Jeff Beck and Page. All are not huntsmen, who can blow a huntman´s horn... you see ?
Leslie here,what a great start of the’70s!! Rocking jam!!
Rock on and Peace
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A young Paul Rogers? I'm impressed! Charismatic stage presence! These fellas were awesome!🤙🎸
Live in devon in 1970. Thrilling. Still has the same depth. Amazing. Thank you.
My God the tone that Paul kossoff is pulling out of that 1959 Gibson les paul burst is unreal. F'N amazing.
I really admire this band, everything is so perfect. Paul Rodgers moves are really carismatic and his vocals are simply one the best of all times.
Watched Free many times absolutely brilliant band … I’m 70 now and still listening to then … Rogers voice has never changed
Paul Rodgers was my fave. He’s got the most beautiful pristine tone without even trying.
Three instruments, four band members and one great song. I can listen to them all day long.
So true Thomas !!! Free is still Fantastic !!! Check out ," Doesn't Matter Where Or When ," an original rocking song and video on my site . Thanks Adam Holtz
@@adamholtz733 Pauls voice is a finely tuned instrument, make no mistake
Let a 54 old drummer just strongly shake your hand mate! 🤝
Keep safe an' take care! 🥁🤘🏻✌🏻
Oh please I grew. Up at14/15! Years old with them I lived with my auntie she hated my music. Free , Grand funk Railroad. And ozzy Osborn with Black Sabbath and she kicked me out at 16/2\
17. So yeah. ..they made more money then HER.Bu haf ha ha ha. She's was a piece of work for sure...
Paul Rodgers and Ronnie Vanzant are the best 2 rock singers ever .
Absolutely agree. Two best bands of all time
P. K. was a Unicorn!! Without question he had the deadliest vibrato in rock….even to this day!! The fact that he played like that on a ponderous LP neck is even more amazing! Loved that band!! 🤟🤟
I thought the 45 was great but this live performance is truly marvellous. The vitality!
Paul Rodgers, the front man's frontman. Been a huge fan of the voice since 1970. Paul Kossoff a classically trained guitarist. Even Eric Clapton was in awe of his vibrato style. Andy Fraser, the Guvnor bass player. Simon Kirke, a no nonsense rock drummer. Free one of the most underated bands ever. I loved them, still do 50 years on.
Kossoff on lead guitar and Fraser on lead bass: awesome.
Agree 110% and they were certainly not under-rated by me.
But everything Paul Rodger has touched has turned to gold.
hes doing that so spot on with no monitors too
I agree - but Free underrated? By whom?
Paul, at the ripe old age of 21 here! Sang like he had lived a hundred lives…ridiculously talented all 4 of them.
Best band in history.
professonal! not just talented! unlike the 21 year olds pretending today.
@Vim Fuego strange comment
@@Phoebedumplings seemingly
Wasn't Andy Fraser bass 17 or 18 here? Not sure.
It's March 22, 2022 and I just heard this live version for the first time - absolutely stunning!! Simon Kirke with a great drum part and totally fantastic snare sound - the tone on the guitar and bass are also astoundingly good! And Paul Rodgers bringing the vocals to a new level - amazing. What a performance! - this band has more energy than the sun!!
Can barely hear the bass though. I'm missing it from the studio version.
I've been watching this over and over for years now. And I couldn't agree more with what you've said. For me, Simon Kirke makes this vid.
Paul Rogers is the greatest singer still alive on this planet to this day.
He never lost it. He still sounds just as good as he did decades ago. Amazing!!
Kirke is working against a wall of amps with almost no help from front of house sound. Awesome
More energy than the sun! 😆 good one and spot on! Simon Kirke is an animal, an exemplary rock drummer!
69 and still rocking always will. It's in my soul.
Greatest guitar riff ever played. I think most people even today know this song.
The band I play bass in covers this song. It's so fun.
It took me decades to realize it but this, ladies and gentlemen, is the finest voice from a generation of fine singers, and to this day is unmatched in raw intensity and deep-down blues/soul emotion.
Don’t forget Robert Plant’s voice....live on dazed and confused.
I told you baby time and time again
Steve Marriott. I put he and Rodgers ahead of Plant every time.
@@brendakeller9366 I’m with you Brenda. No better voice in rock, no better talent than Steve
@@brendakeller9366 RIP, as ever, Steve Marriott.
@@brendakeller9366 Robert plants voice was mostly studio enhanced by Jimmy Page! I saw The mighty Zep 3 times live & plant was all over the place live! Paul Rodgers in my opinion is 100 over times a much better singer. The best rock & blues singer on the planet...
53 years ago and they fuckin rock,love it!!!
Jim Morrison, poet, was a visionary and this song sums up the moment of our time. I’m 70 and it resonates more than ever. 💙
What's Jim Morrison got to do with this??
@@stevecunningham8960people are so stupid. America is a tacky wasteland of ignorance.
Dynamite! All four members of Free are pouring everthing they've got into this song.
This song still works 50 years later!!
It will work in another 1000 years as well
For sure it does ..... one of my favorites!!!!!
@@andymatthews7617 c
Forever🤟
I always listen to this tune. I never pass this video up. I give Paul my respect.
Paul Kossof was an excellent guitarist. Rest In Peace in Rock’n Roll heaven Paul.
DIED FAR TO YOUNG, SIMPLY SUPERB.
He started classical guitar at age 9
And then became the famous Bad Company! Love Love Loved me some Paul Rogers! He’s still beautiful today and going strong!
I was too young for concerts in 1970 , but I did get to see Paul Rodgers live in Houston , Tx. with Bad Company in 1978 and after 300 plus Rock concerts under my belt , I still say that he had the best live vocals of any lead singer in Rock hands down !
TO RIGHT MATE, TO RIGHT.
Saw Bad Company on Running With the Pack Tour in late 70’s , can still picture the floaty white banner behind the band w/wolves on it. Great Band!!
Paul Kossoff..We've lost out on alot of great guitar licks because of his early passing...R.I.P. Paul...🙏
RIP the two members of Free
Paul Kossoff (September 14, 1950 - March 19, 1976), aged 25
Andy Fraser (July 3, 1952 - March 16, 2015), aged 62
You both will be remembered as legends.
one of the most, no, the most recognizable song of ALL time!
This has got to be one of my top 5 favorite rock vocal performances ever. Amazing. And the band around the singer could not be any tighter. Great, great performance.
SIMPLY THE BEST, EVER.
I love Free and I love Bad Company, who Paul Rodgers went on to sing lead for. This man can sing the heck out of anything!
He's handy on the keyboards as well 👍
Paul Is Multi Talented! Simply The Best! The Voice Of Rock&Roll! And Paul Loves Animal's! I Love Paul!
Oh yeah Bad Company.. I think I have worn out that CD. still
That would be easy to do. I had their greatest hits cd once. Loved it. Think I decided to get rid of it and collect their vinyl albums.
I pretty much sick & dead ,but ALWAYS listen to FREE, Bad Co. & Paul's solo s
1973 Paul Rodgers formed Bad Company. Another great band with six platinum albums in nine years. What a talented musician!!
Rock and roll will never die, it will be played on and on.
The 70's was the best error for Rock n roll music ever, we were lucky to enjoy the best error of music! Rock roll will never die!🤘🎶
Not "error", please, but "era."
There's a BIG difference!
And that, ladies and gents, is how music SHOULD be played! RIP Andy and Paul, thank you for the really good times.
I absolutely love the bass guitar in this song. Andy Fraser was a genius.
All bass players are....
I believe he wrote the song. Very clever bass player - what he didn't play was as important as what he did play.
@@2011littlejohn1 to my knowledge he did write the song. That’s what I meant by he was a genius. He doesn’t get nearly as much credit, sadly.
RIP
... he appears so young
I've always loved the bass element in this song
I think Andy's about 17 or 18 years old here. Youthful genius.
Dang, they are so tight in the funky groove and look 😮💨 while doing so…that bass though…OMG…forgot how great they are!!!!
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damn, 60s and 70s rock n roll is just too fuckin good. i wasnt born until damn near the 90s and even I think 60s and 70s was the pinnacle of rock music.
The longer I live and read rock autobiographies and hear interviews of some of my favorite musicians, the more I appreciate the massive influence of this band.
Yep 👍