Free Book

I am delighted to announce that a Free book is in the process of being written. Hopefully it should be completed by December 1998. The authors are looking for any dates of performances, ticket stubs, and clips from newspapers and magazines from 1968 and 1971. Any unique contribution will get name recognition in the book. If you have anything, email Lucy with details.

The Best of Free Video

Best of Free Live at the Isle of Wight Festival. Features "Mr. Big," "The Stealer," "My Brother Jake," "Fire and Water," "Sons of Yesterday," "All Right Now;" montage of stills and live footage to "Love You So" as a tribute to Paul Kossoff. 45 min.

Making a Difference - Song for Paul Rodgers

Richard in the UK wrote this song for Paul. I'm sure many of you can relate to the words written.

Paul Rodgers: In from the Storm

Paul sings one track "Bold as Love" on the "In from the Storm" compilation CD produced by Eddie Kramer. The CD contains 12 Jimi Hendrix songs performed by many different artists. This CD may interest serious Paul Rodgers collectors only.

The Best of Free Tablature

Thanks for this article from Manjeet.

An excellent music book containing full chord and solo transcriptions of 14 Free songs is now available!!! This book contains a very interesting interview with Paul Rodgers who provides some very revealing insights into how Free made their music, and especially how Kossoff built his solos. The name of this book is Best of Free. The songs included are: All right Now, Be my friend, Don't say you love me, Fire and water, Heartbreaker, The highway song, I'll be creeping, I'm a mover, My brother Jake, Mr.Big, Soon I'll be gone, The stealer and Wishing well. You can order this book from Hal Leonard, 7777 N. Bluemound RD, PO box 13819 Milwaukee WI 53213 or find it in your local music store. The cost is $18.95 and the ISBN number: 0-7935-3295-I.

The phone number for Hal Leonard is 414-774-3630 (thank you, Dawn).

Paul Rodgers: concert broadcast on the Internet

Paul Rodgers Live Featuring Slash in RealAudio Sunday 2nd Nov 97 Time 3.30pm (PT). Show me the details.

Paul Rodgers: featured in Goldmine music paper

Paul is featured in the October 24 edition of Goldmine. Note that Goldmine is an excellent source for collectors, it is "The Collectors Record and Compact Disc Marketplace." For Goldmine retailers in your state, email Lucy.

Lucy's Photo Gallery #4 ready for viewing

Photo Gallery #4 has photos from Paul Rodgers' visit to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Paul Rodgers Photo Album by Joe Louis.

Paul Rodgers: latest CD single

(1) ALL I WANT IS YOU (Radio Edit)
(2) Shadow of the Sun (Accoustic Version) ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC (says Lucy)
(3) Ride Easy Ride Slow (Previously Unreleased)

You MUST have this one for your collection. Available from Jartmusic (NOW).

Paul Rodgers: Lucy's report from Hershey Park concert

Hershey Park, Pennsylvania. June 27th. Time 1.55am

Tonight the four of us, Todd Smith, Karen Ayler(A DJ from Radio The Colt)Willy and myself, had such an enjoyable night. Paul came on around 7.40. All four of them were wearing shades, the sunset was just beautiful, and the band played Great!!!!!! The songs:- Can't Get enough. Saving Grace. Feel like making Love. All I want is you.(Which was amazing!) Shadow of the Sun. Run with the Pack. Bad Co. ( Slighty off key) Holding back the Storm. Soul of Love. Shooting Star, and of course All right now. By the time Paul had finished the set, the audience then wanted more, but of course it was too late.

The crowd really enjoyed Paul's performance, even though it took them a while to warm up and also realise who this guy was. Tonight was also real treat for me. Everyone I was with, had the chance to meet Paul or get his autograph or have there picture taken with him. The band seemed more relaxed tonight, not such a demanding gig as others maybe! Thanks to Steve Croxford for helping some fans dream come true. In the next couple of weeks I will have the photos to go with this article.

LUCY PILLER

Meeting Place: publish your email address and get in contact with other fans

Readers, you can still join the MEETING PLACE by sending a short message and your location in the world.

FREE and Bad Company homepage: comments requested

We would like to hear what you think of the FREE and Bad Company Homepage. Please send your comments to LUCY............

Paul Kossoff: new releases

SOME NEW OFFICIAL RELEASES !!

PAUL KOSSOFF "STONE FREE" Carlton Sounds 30360-00952 Compilation + FREE and BSC Live with Words from David Clayton
PAUL KOSSOFF "BLUE LUE SOUL" MCI 50022" American Version of "STONE FREE" with Words from Scott Schinder
PAUL KOSSOFF "The Collection" Loudwolf CRCL 1005 Japan
CRAWLER "Pastime Dreamer Live " Reed Steel RMC CD 0206
ALEXIS CORNER "On the Movie" feat. Honour the Young Man, the Song Alexis wrote for Kossoff

Paul Rodgers: the voice on Tim Donahue's latest CD

TIM DONAHUE - with PAUL RODGERS. New Album called VOICES IN THE WIND

WRITTEN BY JOHN LEE:

Tim is totally unique in what he does-it's hard to put it all into a short letter, but let me start by saying that he does not play 'normal guitar. Tim plays different varieties of fretless guitar (not fretless bass as one might think). His instuments are so unique and beautiful-his main ones have additional harp strings that he fingers as he taps out notes on the fretless portion of the guitar!! In addition to this, he has added the world of MIDI to his instruments, which means he can control synthesizers and play the fretless/harp portion of the instrument at the same time!!! All this translates into incredibly beautiful and sensitive music. Tim is truly a composer/guitarist extraodinaire, as well as one of the world's innovators!!!! His music is extremely melodic and dreamy at times, and always has influences of hard rock and jazz.

WRITTEN BY LUCY PILLER:

I am sure none of you need a description of Paul's work. Just wait until you hear it, Paul will melt your heart away.............

TIM DONAHUE PORTRAIT

Brian Howe: new album "Tangled in Blue" released

BRIAN HOWE HAS JUST RELEASED AN ALBUM CALLED "TANGLED IN BLUE"

It's not everyone who gets a second chance to make a first impression, But, after more than a decade, BRIAN HOWE is getting that chance. Howe, who CUT HIS TEETH AS THE LEAD SINGER IN THE SUPERGROUP BAD COMPANY, is taking full advantage of this opportunity. "I'm at the point now where I've worked long and hard to get where I can make my debut as a solo artist (and to make) a recording what I would want to buy." say's Howe, who already has a PAIR IF PLATINUM ALBUMS UNDER HIS BELT (Bad Company's Dangerous Age & Holy water) " I wanted to make more contemporary music."

Geoff Whitehorn: album releases

GEOFF WHITEHORN (LEAD GUITARIST OF PAULS BAND HAS TWO SOLO ALBUMS please contact David Clayton (FAS) for details.
Both are very fine albums.

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