I believe Paul Rogers was quoted as saying bands like Free and Raspberries were the rockin’ American response to all the Progressive Rock that was coming from the UK. I remember all the rich kids who used to smoke pot and listen to Prog all day. Loved this band and later Bad Company.
We people that lived through the 60s 70s 80s are the luckiest people in the world these were and never will be again the three decades of the most Brilliant music ever and they were safe and happy times too. We should be so grateful I loved those years.
I can only agree up to a point. Sure, I have lots of nostalgia for that time, but as a woman and a member of the lgbtq community I sure didn’t always feel safe and happy.
Those three decades were a time when the planets and stars lined up for us of those generations. The ultra wealthy have sucked all the life out of everything they put their greedy mitts on. So sorry for all succeeding generations.
In 1970 my friend and I where walking on the beach. it was a fabulous sunny summers day. All Right Now was playing on a radio. We where young confident and on the prowl and we soon spotted two gorgeous girls. One blonde the other had long dark hair. I said to my friend "I'll take the one with the dark hair." How smug where we when we where young eh?😀 We clicked right away and eventually I married her. I'm 75 now and every time I hear that song it takes me right back to that day.😀
That’s a great story mate....75 and still together....I’m the same 75 and still with the love of my life since I was 17yrs old...( listening to all this music has kept me young 😂)...The brilliant Free, and then Bad Co.....along with Sabbath, Deep purple, Led Zep, so many great bands......👍🏻...I just ask Alexa and all the old stuff fills the room...🎵and keeps me head banging!....🤟🏻
I remember the first time I heard this in 1970 and was blown away! I still love this song and group and I'm 77 years old now. Good music never gets old.
Yes, we are! Fifty years ago we promised to love and respect each other and we still do. I’m so proud of my friend for life, my husband. Just celebrate the good moments. Turn to the light, like sunflowers do!
Absolutely brilliant performance by a vastly underrated band. Rodgers still sings now just the same as he did then. The best white blues rock singer ever.
@sunnycharacter - I graduated in ‘72 and my high school boyfriend and I loved this song…played it full blast while riding around in his beautiful Chevelle. I lost him three years later to a car accident, but this brings back great memories.
Meet Rodgers in a music store in my home town with my little girl who was taking guitar lessons. He chatted with her and took our address to send a cd to her and she did recieve it. Very humble awesome man. Thanks
Thank you Paul Rodgers and Free --------- this really was the time of my life ------- going down to Cornwall on holiday with friends -------- EVERY pub had this blasting -------- The best possible memories ----------- UNBEATABLE
Born in 74. I had teenage brothers and sisters. Heard this song all my damn life! So awesome! Their sound was so authentic. Real bands, not studio bands like now.
I'm 59 and I came of age in the 70s and 80s - glorious time to be alive. FREE and a host of other awesome bands were the backing tracks to my life. Thank you all and more power to you.
Absolutely magic..the 70's was a fantastic era for music whatever genre it was all just amazing ..this one..oh my lord..a classic..the pounding beat of the drums..the high pitching of the guitar and the absolute banging rock voice of LEGEND Paul Rodgers..a perfect rock/pop song..this song epitomises the word..BANGER 😂
This has been my FAVORITE to crank on the car radio and sing along pretending I'm the girl smiling from my head to my feet And at 73, I'm still cranking it .❤
I agree Paul Rogers has a superb blues/rock voice. However James Dewar (Robin Trower Band) was a beautiful blue eyed soul/blues/rock singer. Understated with a drop dead gorgeous tone. Look him up singing “about to begin”. Superb lyrics to boot!!
@@gawnmcilwaine2896 Yes, but he didn't have the range Paul has. Listen to "Laying Down The Law" when he was with the group The Law. Try singing it. I was in a band. I could sing James Dewar/Robin Trower stuff easily. I had to start so low trying to sing Laying Down The Law because he goes up about four octaves and I almost couldn't talk after singing the high parts. A great album almost no one knows about.
@@cindyinnew You are correct about not comparing the two bands. Free was blues and rock at its base/core. As raw as it gets. The opium of those types of music. Four guys, most times only three playing an instrument. I love Gregg Allman and preferred his solo version of Midnight Rider. But he didn't have the vocal range of Paul Rogers and the Allman Brothers band was six guys, sometimes more, all playing instruments.
Ce titre est l’hymne des seventies ! La version live à l’Ile de Wight est bien supérieure ! Free est un groupe top! Paul Kossof, le bassiste Andy Fraser, le batteur et l’extraordinaire voix Rock de Paul Rodgers!
The vocal was live I think. You can see and her a few mistakes in the timing. Around that time the musicians union had some rule about some part of any songs sung on TV had to be played live.@@coolmacatrain9434
I always share these videos with my sons so they’ll know what how REAL, exceptional musicians sound like. i’m disgusted by auto tuned vocals. Miss the ‘70’s.
Only 43 years old I remember hearing this in the mid 80s when I was about 5 or 6 years old for the chewing gum commercial. (I had no clue it was already a decade and a half old then!) I may have been born 10 years after this track but by God it's such a classic truly immortal, I sincerely hope today's youth can appreciate it.
I got to see Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page along time ago with firm. Paul Rodgers and Burton Cummings probably two of the most underrated voices in rock n roll. Great song, good find!
Ah yes, my lovely wife’s favorite band. One of my favorites too, along with Bad Company. Paul Rodgers is at the top of blues/rock singers; his voice is instantly recognizable and pleasing to the ear. Great to see this old performance.
@@afistfulofpimples1745 Well, I think she’s as lovely as she was when we were in high school dating. That was almost 50 years ago, so opinions may vary. Not mine though.
@@dodibenabba525 He's superb no doubt. Great tone and tasteful. What a classic Marshall and vintage Les Paul should sound like 👍. But remember back then to get the Marshall to break up like that it had to be cranked which meant NOISE when you weren't playing. So I'll give them a pass. Also it was him playing in the recording anyway
Best single ever. Any band, any era. Wore out my first copy - looked around for months to replace it!!! Eventually found an ex-JukeBox copy with the middle punched out. Prized possession ✊🏼
Paul Rodgers was the vocalist for an extraordinary bad to the bone band called Bad Company and continued to sing his wonderful range of powerful performances giving women like me songasms ❤❤❤❤
Free were Legend back in the day. Paul Kossoff and his Gibson LP put together some of the most famous and most played riffs of all time. RIP Paul, taken by the evil of drugs when he was just getting started. Way too young, so sad..
I was 9 years old and I vividly remember watching this on Top of the Pops. Paul Rodgers,what a voice and this song is one of my all time favourites....❤🎸😎✌️
I taped this off TOTP back then, and played it constantly. I could weep for those years, no one except our generation will ever know what 70-75 was like, and it was all thanks to guys like this.
Nothing can compare to 70s music scene!!! Never to be repeated. You had to live it.
🎯🎸👍
I lived it and I'm still living it, nothing comes close !!
@@robertmartin7594 i lived it bringing up my children but loved all the songs still do and im 74 x
I'm 66 old now, but Free are still one of my favorites ... I could cry a little...miss those times...Regards from Croatia 🇭🇷
I believe Paul Rogers was quoted as saying bands like Free and Raspberries were the rockin’ American response to all the Progressive Rock that was coming from the UK. I remember all the rich kids who used to smoke pot and listen to Prog all day. Loved this band and later Bad Company.
We people that lived through the 60s 70s 80s are the luckiest people in the world these were and never will be again the three decades of the most Brilliant music ever and they were safe and happy times too. We should be so grateful I loved those years.
I can only agree up to a point. Sure, I have lots of nostalgia for that time, but as a woman and a member of the lgbtq community I sure didn’t always feel safe and happy.
Those three decades were a time when the planets and stars lined up for us of those generations. The ultra wealthy have sucked all the life out of everything they put their greedy mitts on. So sorry for all succeeding generations.
That is right, i was vorn in
East Germany in 1955.
The best years in music,
The best Years in my live
One of the greatest rock and roll voices EVER!!!!
He and Ronnie VanZant, Ronnie I have read had great respect for Paul and patterned his self from Pauls stage performaces.
One of them!
Absolutely!!!
For me, the greatest ever!!!
Imagine being able to sing like that, my god, unreal
one time I wrote a positive comment on TH-cam about Free.. and Paul Rodger’s himself replied, and said “Thanks, Matt”… I couldn’t believe it !!!!
Sure he did 🙄🤔🙄
☝️ what he said
right on
"Thanks, Matt".....now wake up and go to school!
Me neither!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Aaaah, the days when bands were full of talented people.!!
A GENIUS OF A SINGER, WITH A SIMPLY SUPERB LINE-UP BEHIND HIM, GREAT MUSIC, GREAT DAYS.
Spot on with that! Best time of my life, and for the music!
In 1970 my friend and I where walking on the beach. it was a fabulous sunny summers day. All Right Now was playing on a radio. We where young confident and on the prowl and we soon spotted two gorgeous girls. One blonde the other had long dark hair. I said to my friend "I'll take the one with the dark hair." How smug where we when we where young eh?😀 We clicked right away and eventually I married her. I'm 75 now and every time I hear that song it takes me right back to that day.😀
That’s a great story mate....75 and still together....I’m the same 75 and still with the love of my life since I was 17yrs old...( listening to all this music has kept me young 😂)...The brilliant Free, and then Bad Co.....along with Sabbath, Deep purple, Led Zep, so many great bands......👍🏻...I just ask Alexa and all the old stuff fills the room...🎵and keeps me head banging!....🤟🏻
In 1970, i was pooping in my diaper.
"Mines the brunette" ...worked for me too...51 years married 🙂
Great memory for you
Congrats on meeting your soul mate! And what a great song to be playing when your paths first crossed!!!
Superbe chanson forever 🎸🎙💃🕺💏🌹🚘🙏
I remember the first time I heard this in 1970 and was blown away! I still love this song and group and I'm 77 years old now. Good music never gets old.
Snap. I’m 78. Good luck mate.
Yea bro
You old buggers I,m a 72 yr old but Free was a great band
No never. The Beatles is the bestest band ever. I'm 68.
I love 10 years after too.
This is perfect! I wish they had stuck around longer! Old music is the best! I should know...I'm old!😂😂
Hey, we are all still here. Loving music, one another. We made it🎵✌️
Yes, we are! Fifty years ago we promised to love and respect each other and we still do. I’m so proud of my friend for life, my husband. Just celebrate the good moments. Turn to the light, like sunflowers do!
Hanging by a thread!
Hell yea we are!❤
Sweet.❤😊
Absolutely brilliant performance by a vastly underrated band. Rodgers still sings now just the same as he did then. The best white blues rock singer ever.
you are right there. rodgers is the beez neez!
Yes, I agree, cheers 😀🍷🇩🇪🎉
Not to put a dampener on it whilst I agree Paul's bassy, gravelly voice is the best white blues rock singer ever, Grayson Hugh has to be a close 2nd.
74 yrs old still love the song no im not in an old peoples home 😂
Great miming performance yeah 😅
Graduated in ‘73, and I can tell you this is the perfect date song. Dangerous, but perfect. 🫣😍
@sunnycharacter - I graduated in ‘72 and my high school boyfriend and I loved this song…played it full blast while riding around in his beautiful Chevelle. I lost him three years later to a car accident, but this brings back great memories.
@@larlar8580 Yes, I graduated in ‘73 in Fremont, Ca. Man, these songs really are timeless. So sorry for your boyfriend’s passing.
@@sunnycharacter thank you❤
I loved Free so much. Paul Kossoff was just the most brilliant and influential guitarist, and such a charming, fragile young man. 🙏
Meet Rodgers in a music store in my home town with my little girl who was taking guitar lessons. He chatted with her and took our address to send a cd to her and she did recieve it. Very humble awesome man. Thanks
only in the 70,s dont ever let someone tell you they were dull, best times ever sadly never to be repeated
I agree
The most creative decade in music, in all genres
Perranporth - summer 1970 and this stunning song. Thanks, 'Free'. Regards from Blighty :).
Thank you Paul Rodgers and Free --------- this really was the time of my life ------- going down to Cornwall on holiday with friends -------- EVERY pub had this blasting -------- The best possible memories ----------- UNBEATABLE
Born in 74. I had teenage brothers and sisters. Heard this song all my damn life! So awesome! Their sound was so authentic. Real bands, not studio bands like now.
Paul Kossoff.Sleep sweetly angel 🎸
I'm 59 and I came of age in the 70s and 80s - glorious time to be alive. FREE and a host of other awesome bands were the backing tracks to my life. Thank you all and more power to you.
I'm 65, Total joy listening to an utterly brilliant band, I want to go back, NOW.
Probably the most underrated band in the history of rock and roll. Incredibly talented musicians.
Yessss Nice 👍, Rock On ✌️❤️🥰
And we thought music like this would never end.
Love Free and always will ❤
Absolutely magic..the 70's was a fantastic era for music whatever genre it was all just amazing ..this one..oh my lord..a classic..the pounding beat of the drums..the high pitching of the guitar and the absolute banging rock voice of LEGEND Paul Rodgers..a perfect rock/pop song..this song epitomises the word..BANGER 😂
Great to hear this '70s rocker. A time that was truly Free.
Heard this multiple times a day in my high school cafeteria, years 1970 and 1971. It should have been our class song
Andy Fraser one of the greatest bassist of all time. Also co writer of this song.
KOSSOFF WASNT BAD EITHER.
Bass lead on Mr. Big doesn't get much better.
So young too.
That Bass is my favorite part of this song
He wrote all right now and the stealer and my brother jake
Paul Rodgers has been my favorite singer for more than 50 years. How wonderful to see him the way that he was: up close and in colour. ❤
This has been my FAVORITE to crank on the car radio and sing along pretending I'm the girl smiling from my head to my feet
And at 73, I'm still cranking it .❤
Can we get together Jennifer, I'm 65, and have a" FREE" NIGHT, MAXIMUM VOLUME, THAT WOULD BE SOME GIG.😊😊
Seriously one of the best songs of the 70’s!! All through my High school years we grooved to this and danced our little butts off!!
❤Free❤
That drum and guitar hook is an ultimate classic! Paul a top notch vocalist
One of my favorite all-time songs. And I've been around for 71 years.
Greatest blues'rock band EVER and greatest rock vocalist EVER Mr Paul Rodgers
I agree Paul Rogers has a superb blues/rock voice. However James Dewar (Robin Trower Band) was a beautiful blue eyed soul/blues/rock singer. Understated with a drop dead gorgeous tone. Look him up singing “about to begin”. Superb lyrics to boot!!
@@gawnmcilwaine2896 Yes, but he didn't have the range Paul has. Listen to "Laying Down The Law" when he was with the group The Law. Try singing it. I was in a band. I could sing James Dewar/Robin Trower stuff easily. I had to start so low trying to sing Laying Down The Law because he goes up about four octaves and I almost couldn't talk after singing the high parts. A great album almost no one knows about.
Gregg Allman is the greatest white male blues singer. Love both Rodgers. However, I can’t even compare Free to the ABB
@@cindyinnew You are correct about not comparing the two bands. Free was blues and rock at its base/core. As raw as it gets. The opium of those types of music. Four guys, most times only three playing an instrument. I love Gregg Allman and preferred his solo version of Midnight Rider. But he didn't have the vocal range of Paul Rogers and the Allman Brothers band was six guys, sometimes more, all playing instruments.
@@danabuch324 but we were talking “blues” singers. As far as trained vocals, Rodgers was much better. For raw, truly blues vocals, Allman stands alone
It only took them 10 minutes to write this and it turned out to be the best.
Imagine seeing this band live in tour pub? It would blow your mind. It would reset your reality.
Free were a wonderful band, great music, fond memories.
Agree great band 👏👏👏
Love this now just as much as 1970❤7
My favorite song when I was 12 years old. 54 years later it's still one of my favorite songs.Great music is timeless
I loved this song so much when I was in high school! Great singer and band!
First time heard this in my youth...now you’re talking..🇨🇦
Paul is one of the best singers ever and so was the band!
Well said mate.
I wish Paul Kossoff could have been with us longer. What a rare talent!
Agree with you 💯! Kossoff talent was heaven sent! 🪽🕊️🎸❤️✨🙏🏻
Ce titre est l’hymne des seventies ! La version live à l’Ile de Wight est bien supérieure ! Free est un groupe top! Paul Kossof, le bassiste Andy Fraser, le batteur et l’extraordinaire voix Rock de Paul Rodgers!
No matter how many times i hear this still sounds so good ! Great , great voice ! 😊😊
I vaguely remember this performance
I went traveling in 1971/72 with Free's 'unofficial' photographer Lucille and lived their music for a year....and ever since. Hiya Lucy.
Four young men graced by God I feel. Incredible creativity and unity of purpose in their work.
Beautiful. This song was perfect. Wish i could be back in time.
Free are the bomb. Loved this song. The guitar riff is amazing along with the singers voice.🎸🎤🎵
I lived it. i loved it and you can shove todays music where the sun don't shine ( In a dank cellar )
The greatest Rock & Roll voice Ever....
What a fantastic live version of a true 70’s rock classic!
It's not live ...
The vocal was live I think. You can see and her a few mistakes in the timing. Around that time the musicians union had some rule about some part of any songs sung on TV had to be played live.@@coolmacatrain9434
TOTP, notoriously lip synch.
Lord have mercy! Paul had a golden set of pipes and looks to match. His voice has the perfect amount of grit, such a soulful sound.
Missing the odd note now and then😮
Perfect rock by the best
I’ve always liked this song. Good music to drive on the highway with a heavy right foot!
I always share these videos with my sons so they’ll know what how REAL, exceptional musicians sound like. i’m disgusted by auto tuned vocals. Miss the ‘70’s.
Precioso años dorados de juventud y discotecas ❤❤
I'm a 65 yr old Black woman who LOVES this song! So much soul!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
You've got got great taste in music, Lorraine, this band were truly brilliant.
I find myself singing this song more And more the older I get
....it's imprinted on my brain
Only 43 years old I remember hearing this in the mid 80s when I was about 5 or 6 years old for the chewing gum commercial. (I had no clue it was already a decade and a half old then!) I may have been born 10 years after this track but by God it's such a classic truly immortal, I sincerely hope today's youth can appreciate it.
A great live set from Free, playing the definitive rock anthem of 1970s. Happy days.😊
Back when ICONS ♾️🌹🌹🌹🇺🇲🪖☦️🏥🫀💋mattered❤
They were incredible, as indeed Paul Rogers still is. RIP Paul Kossoff.
Free where a great band of such young guys with amazing soul.
Paul Rodgers. The greatest voice in rock.
Desde Salta , Argentina ...Free y Paul Rodgers marcaron una época, psicodélica, hipona, única y libre 🎉
Paul is still banging out this song, and the voice is just amazing still, this is 54 years old, imagine that, where did the time go
Been listening to Free for over 50 years, still remain one of the Greatest British bands of all time..
I got to see Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page along time ago with firm. Paul Rodgers and Burton Cummings probably two of the most underrated voices in rock n roll. Great song, good find!
I absolutely love the Guess Who and Burton Cummings.
The Guess Who live at the Paramount is one of the best vocal performances ever.@@milt6208
My choice among the underrated is John Kay of Steppenwolf. They had dozens of supersongs, not only "Born to be wild"
My choice is Harry Nillson
Love this awesome hit I enjoy listening to this song on television commercials all the time such upbeat rhythm ❤
Great song!!!!!!
Best times were the 70’s!!!!💖💕
Ah yes, my lovely wife’s favorite band. One of my favorites too, along with Bad Company. Paul Rodgers is at the top of blues/rock singers; his voice is instantly recognizable and pleasing to the ear. Great to see this old performance.
What does she look like?
@@afistfulofpimples1745 Well, I think she’s as lovely as she was when we were in high school dating. That was almost 50 years ago, so opinions may vary. Not mine though.
Good answer.
THE GREAT FREE ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS EVER AND PAUL RODGERS ONE OF THE GREAT ROCK VOICES.
Kossoff. Absolutely overlooked legend.
So legendary he can slide a note up the neck without moving his hand 😂 check it out at 2:12
Check out the last note in his solo too. He slides it down the neck but the high note keeps playing some how 😂
😂 totp usually had bands miming. He's still in my top 5 though.....
@@dodibenabba525 He's superb no doubt. Great tone and tasteful. What a classic Marshall and vintage Les Paul should sound like 👍. But remember back then to get the Marshall to break up like that it had to be cranked which meant NOISE when you weren't playing. So I'll give them a pass. Also it was him playing in the recording anyway
@@BarronVonSchneider did some good stuff with Back Street Crawler too
The most underrated band in history!
BY MILES.
Best single ever. Any band, any era.
Wore out my first copy - looked around for months to replace it!!! Eventually found an ex-JukeBox copy with the middle punched out.
Prized possession ✊🏼
I absolutely love Free music in the 70's just made me smile
Paul Rodgers was the vocalist for an extraordinary bad to the bone band called Bad Company and continued to sing his wonderful range of powerful performances giving women like me songasms ❤❤❤❤
It was a great Clear Headed time. Miss it dearly
The band is very good and the singer is as handsome as an angel. What a boy!
This takes me right back. This era never to be repeated or bettered, you can't better perfection.
BEST MUSIC AND DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
Timeless.. Free one of the greatest bands of all time!!
Danced at 15 now 68 still dancing to this song, fab , Love from the UK
Greatest rock and roll singer and front Man of all time
BY MILES.
What an iconic beautiful, and soulful voice, I'm in awe.
Note to the people of 2024 you are supposed to do it live just like this 😊
Absolutely iconic song, and one that never, ever fails to make me smile.
The 70’s was awesome loved every second of that decade ❤
Free were Legend back in the day. Paul Kossoff and his Gibson LP put together some of the most famous and most played riffs of all time. RIP Paul, taken by the evil of drugs when he was just getting started. Way too young, so sad..
His Gibson looks so used already. I wonder what its history is. Unusual colour as well.
That is sad. He wrote in rhis song one of rock's best known 4-bar hooks. Fascinating how the camera managed to avoid a single shot of his left hand.
I was 9 years old and I vividly remember watching this on Top of the Pops. Paul Rodgers,what a voice and this song is one of my all time favourites....❤🎸😎✌️
Brilliant ❤❤❤
Best era for music ever. Such a wide range of bands, genres and creativity.
I taped this off TOTP back then, and played it constantly. I could weep for those years, no one except our generation will ever know what 70-75 was like, and it was all thanks to guys like this.
A rare gem indeed ❤
THIS is the song that takes me back to where I wanna be. When the body was good and the mind was free.
Paul sounds as amazing today as he did back then. The man has aged very well and still kicks ass with Bad Company. 😎👍
Back when the music was soul soothing and made you feel involved in it. Still stiring emotions in people.