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FREE live 24 July 1970. RIDE A PONY..MR BIG..SONGS OF YESTERDAY.. I'll BE CREEPING..ALLRIGHT NOW.. Granada Studios Manchester. Doing There Thing TV SERIES. Free Forever DVD. Andy Fraser.Paul Kossoff.Paul Rodgers.Simon Kirke.


note: I'm told Bass Player and songwriter Andy Frasier was at this time 17 and not one of them was over 21...


Most remarkable about the birth of Free was the young age of the band members who first came together to rehearse and play their first gig that same evening at the Nag's Head pub in Battersea, London, on 19 April 1968. Bass player Andy Fraser was 15 years old, lead guitarist Paul Kossoff was 17, and both lead singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke were 18. By November of that year, having been given the name Free by Alexis Korner, they had recorded their first album Tons Of Sobs for Island Records and, although it was not released until the following year, the album documents their first six months together and contains studio renditions of much of their early live set.