Allright Now-Free #2.*Top Of The Pops-70s*

[Torkhead3]

I never ever grow tired of this tune. The bell bottoms and hair just capture the essence of the era...:)

[vinylsurrender]

This is played LIVE! I can't believe it sounds this close to the original and this good! Wept.

[TheGirlOfPop96]

Justin Bieber is NOTHING compared to this!

[howard385]

Damn..those are some high motherf___s!

[francophile82]

Truly one of the best rock songs ever written!

[CaltonBhoy1967]

Jeez - Takes me back to early school days - Mindblowin' to me at the time - If Carlsberg did singers it would be Paul Rodgers. and Paul Kossoff was in a class of his own.

[MultiRossyb]

absolute tune and half

[lena2709]

Best reef all times, by far!

[BirdmanPG]

I saw Free at Fairfield Hall in Croydon..70 or 71.... I loved this song as did most of my friends but the concert was kinda boring.. only their encore saved the set... Mott the Hoople opened for them and frankly Hunter and his crew played Free off the stage... I read later that much of that concert was used for the MTH live album released in 2007...

[russ12395]

COOL !......... THANKS !

[thewhoyouknow]

70s, the hairdresser's crisis

[DrYattz]

Google "bad gig Durham Free" and you'll read why this song sucks! It was concocted to try to get audiences to clap longer at the end of their boring shows. It doesn't resonate with the anguished idealism or fornicatory release of the 60s or 70s - it's just commercial drivel, jerking audiences off musically for applause manipulation, which is why the disposable lyrics are so terrible. Pathetic! They were just a bunch of hacks trying to sound like an American band and make a buck.

[flooberbloob]

@DrYattz ridiculous comments from someone who obviously has never played music or been on the road for any length of time. "bad gig durham free"? so what? Doubt if you have ever listened to any of their albumsOR seen Free live. I have and you're way off the mark.

Typical comments that smack of a failed music critic/hack. Get over yourself. Vacuous in the extreme and clueless comments from a simpleton. Go twitter elsewhere.

[DrYattz]

@flooberbloob Hmmm - I've played guitar (acoustic & electric) & bass (upright & electric) for 4 decades in rock, R&B, blues, new wave, jazz, new age, country, bluegrass bands. Never "on the road," since it has always been a parttime passion. Never saw Free, or had any desire to. This simpleton (with a PhD) was listening to King Crimson, Cream, Traffic, Nice, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zep when Free was playing with themselves and their preadolescent fans.

Never been called "vacuous" before - really?

[flooberbloob]

@DrYattz Yes your comment was vacuous. I am also a multi instrumentalist and have played all over Europe and the US for 30 years now. Live and Studio. Phd? Your point?

HMMM Cream? Zep? Really?

All of that aside, your skewering of a band held in esteem by their peers (and some of the bands you namecheck),is way over the top. It smacks of many music critic hacks I have encountered here and in Europe who skewer bands on a whim with very little to back it up.

Ever written an original?

[BbilllyNoMates]

One guy won't be FREE for long.

[uglybassplayer17]

The glory days of music where your music wasn't based on how good looking you are. This song still rocks it.

[MegaMusicman34]

imagine if these guys had stayed together longer,bearing in mind they were only 17-20 years old in this video would they of give the beatles a run for their money.

[wontgoaway]

So young.....so talented.....so missed!

[ausgang]

Andy Fraser doesn't get the credit he deserves. He was one of the groovingest bass players around. Bad Company was stiff because it didn't have him.

[gmlasam]

@ausgang

I agree. Andy Fraser was a fantastic bass player. He was good enough to play bass for John Mayall's bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. Andy was only "15 years old" when he got that gig!!! He also wrote this song, "All Right Now" with Rodgers. Yes, Andy doesn't get the credit he deserves indeed.

[dirmo77]

@gmlasam Poor guys got Aids now

[flooberbloob]

@dirmo77 Andy Fraser doesn't have aids. He IS hiv positive - contracted from a blood transfusion during treatment for cancer. He is in remission and is new album is completed and due for release. Check your facts b4 blurting nonsense.

[wontgoaway]

Endures....and no one compares!

[bleachit21]

Rogers is the best Rocker ever...Awesome song

[skunkhead2006]

yorkshire in those days well east riding now cleveland (Teesside) my 2nd cousin had a fling with paul back then,they went to the same collage marys or kirby cant remember

[philwear]

got to be the best vocalist ever ... good yorkshire boy

[openroad88]

The best classic rock song ever written.

[honkforpeace007]

Frazer is an excellent bass player and so underrated. My favorite still: MR: BIG

[RubyLovesTomDonnelly]

LOVe it~~~~

thanks

[ADenny12]

I had this on 45. Paul R. is the best rock singer of all time, IMHO.

[rocknrolldaddio]

R.I.P. Paul. "If theres a Rock 'N Roll Heaven i know they've got one hell of a band"

[Posterswhite]

Wow. Rare live version of All Right Now on Top of the Pops. Paul Kossoff in full flight on lead guitar.

[GalaxyHorse]

@Posterswhite Except it is not "Live"-bands on Top of the Pops just about always mimed to their own recording-if you look carefully you can see the guitars are not plugged in, there are no Amps..I'm fairly sure the vocals were usually sung for real-this was done to enable a rapid controlled entry and exit-A purely "live" scenario would be pretty difficult to manage in the 30 minute time slot.

[mealys]

Free Brilliant band

[stormcats2]

andy fraser on bass , thats some funk goin on there

[2812vin]

I 'm more in to soul, but this brill

[Birkebine]

When Rodgers comes at 0.14, it's like a finely-tuned 1970 Mustang slipping into first gear.

[viareggio69]

when \\i hear the intro Im there back in time///////

[cheekyhamsta]

Man, this is some serious music! An absolute classic that is incomparable to the crap that is dished out today

[connieutube]

This was a fab record!

[lindastone811]

To rodrigitotube, I found it, its called Synpathy by Rare Bird, put lyrics in Google, found answer, thn found song was on You Tube, xx

[fionamary56]

Paul Rodgers has to be the most underrated of all the classic rock singers-yet in my humble opinion-THE BEST.This is a BRILLIANT song,but always underplayed,and unremembered.

[ohsteven]

If it wasn't for the wolfman eyebrows and the crooked teeth, Paul Rodgers would have been THE most popular rock singer. He certainly has the best pipes of all of them.

[SoloJarred]

@ohsteven i disagree. I think Robert Plant is more powerful and just more overwhelming. but to each his own.

[infinera06]

@ohsteven HAHAHHHAA Like the most popular rock singers have the best looks! Mick Jagger, Steve Tyler, Rod Steward....I guess you find them handsome! HAHAHHA

[TheSonicmule]

i never said it was cool to do drugs, i said they look like they smoke reefer and you confirmed it. thanks peckerhead

[54crockett]

lol nice one

[rocknrolldaddio]

R.I.P. Paul K.

[TheSonicmule]

these guys look like they might smoke reefer

[rocknrolldaddio]

do you think it's cool to do drugs? take a look at the lead guitarist. he smoked reefer + a little more than that. unfortunatly a short time after this broadcast he was found dead on a flight to miami. the "stewardess" thought he was asleep.

[TheRisingforce2000]

paul rogers was coo lbefore he started dressin all gay

[jmeb17]

this is one of the most classic songs ever...it just has that classic sound, its great

[rodrigitotube]

Who is the band that stars it's set at the end of the video?

Sounds familiar but I'm not sure...

[skida3]

@rodrigitotube The band at the end is Rare Bird with their single "Sympathy". The full video should be in the list on the right here >

[skida3]

@rodrigitotube The band at the end is Rare Bird with their single "Sympathy". The full video should be in the list on the right here >

[amadorraulespinosa]

De hecho se escuchan los coros cuando no los hay en el escenario....

[rockenchile]

The lead vocal is live, the sync is so tight it's impossible for it to be lip-sync in just one take. But the instruments are pre-recorded, you can tell there is a second guitar filling in during the solo. Plus there are backing vocals. The reason the music was prerecorded was that on a TV show it is too much of an issue to handle both visuals and sound. Much easier to have the sound already done nicely and concentrate solely on the visuals.

[Supramk3GDT]

badly directed video

[danlucamkie]

Bdfore synthetic backing music was used, all their own work!

[ben909ben]

ironically lip synch....

TOTP didn't do much live in this era, the technicians couldn't handle it, and the record companies wanted the studio version.

One band showed up with a cardboard cut-out of their base player. Was that Faces? Can't remember.

[ben909ben]

3:20 is the giveaway. I agree though, these guys could play.

[These4walls05]

Love the long hair.. I was 9 at the time ;) The 70's were great :D!!

[TumblingDice1972]

checkoot the burdz

[Paulinkebink]

Ik weet nog goed dat ik de live LP kocht toen hij net uit kwam, niet wetende dat het een klassieker zou worden. Roger is en blijft de stem hebben voor Rock.

[JayRocFly]

sound like the Stones

[kink66]

I WISH I WAS IN THAT SHOW!

[crownwizard]

saw them in concert at Guildford Civic hall in 1970? Brilliant

[vicsmith5000]

Makes me wish I was there part of it all...all time classic song.

[poeverett]

still sounds great after all these years

[keimzeit88]

eine meiner Lieblingsbands ♥♥♥♥

einfach GENIAL!

[cheetta52]

whaoo what a song..was on my last year at school when this was about,, am still playin it

[tchitcharocks]

AMAZING!

[allthereds]

what ever it got us thro the night and more

[ronkelly52]

I was 18 when tghis came out in the summer of 1970. Paul Rogers is of course singing live, the music is pre-recorded. The main point is this: compare his soulful/rock style with his own today. What's best?

[LesPaulKLO]

It must have been kind of humiliating to mime your own song. Paul Kossoff and Andy Frasier doesn´t look that happy. Paul Rogers singing like a god as always.

[comicstew]

HE's NOT MIMING...watch closely and listen HE IS SINGING but the music is pre-recorded. It's actually rather obvious!

[oliverdavidpatrick]

OMG the girls back then were AWESOME !!!!!

[Elinoon]

wich i was born back then..

[RoterAdler1]

Mein Lieblings Song

[amarone1956]

I used to drink at the Bun Shop pub in Cambridge, and I remember listening to this on speed.

[snufu]

saw two jamaicans crusin round in a robin reliant listen to this! whts the world coming too pffftttt yeahhh

[luggyluggy7777777777]

yes paul rodgers the best - love the song the summer of 1970 was great from luggy from derbyshire.

[oghgo]

Those were the times when a band and guitarist knew how to put the singer's voice on its way.

[gosia127]

Two things that this video made me think...Paul had that wayward tooth fixed and (more importantly) where is that Kossoff Les Paul now!

I am a big Kossoff fan and would love to hold his old guitars.

[NeilThompson30]

54 - It's funny you should comment on the Paul Rodgers/Lou Gramm connection. I love both singers. I got into Free in 1970 but it took me a while to get into Foreigner and it wasn't until I heard their album 'Head games' (probably their least successful!) that I got really into them - that is still one of my favourite albums.

It became clear to me that Rodgers and Gramm had very similar styles. They're both great singers and I don't think Gramm dethroned Rodgers - but as I say - I love them both

[tgrunau]

Man, I think I just flashed back to high school!

[romanbrough]

This is music, This is memories. This is our youth, When we had health expectations, and decades of life. I really dont care who sang it. I am just thankful they did.

[explorer45]

I wonder how people could appreciate songs like that and hope we won't be mistaken by the false beauties of our times.

[TimWalker]

Lou Gramm my arse....Free are the coolest band ever.

[54gravi]

Unfortunately Paul Rodgers was the best, until Lou Gramm dethroned Paul. Sorry.

[formula602]

Scary eyebrows!Wow.....

[mokogintaz]

Paul Rodgers the best white blues singer !

[McDJohnny]

Gregg Allman? Paul's great too though.

[mokogintaz]

Yeah, Greg is one of my favorite too