Fact #75306
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A newly-formed rock group play their first gig ever, at The Nag's Head pub, Battersea, London, England, UK, Europe. All of the members of the band are still in their teens. Successful blues musician Alexis Korner is in the audience, and suggests they should call themselves Free At Last. They adapt the suggestion and simply call themselves Free.Full article:
Paul Kossoff (guitarist, Free) : Free came together just after Andy (bassist Andy Fraser) left John Mayall. Simon and I had also just left a group - Black Cat Bones, and we two, together with Paul, who was previously with Wilde Flowers, decided to do something ourselves. We were looking for a bass player and Andy was looking for a group and so he joined us. We started out as a blues band, but it moved on from there. We weren't interested in staying on that plane.
(Source : interview with Jerry Floyd, Zigzag, August 1970)
Andy Fraser (bassist) : We were roaring from the get-go. Straight away, we just knew it was going to happen.
Simon Kirke (drummer : It wasn't like breaking the ice. There was communication coming from all sides, something that went above it all.
Paul Rodgers (vocalist) : It was, do you know Four O'Clock In the Morning? 'Yeah.' Do you know Spoonful? 'Yeah.' We set up at lunch as separate people and by four in the afternoon we were a band.
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(Source : interview with Jerry Floyd, Zigzag, August 1970)
Andy Fraser (bassist) : We were roaring from the get-go. Straight away, we just knew it was going to happen.
Simon Kirke (drummer : It wasn't like breaking the ice. There was communication coming from all sides, something that went above it all.
Paul Rodgers (vocalist) : It was, do you know Four O'Clock In the Morning? 'Yeah.' Do you know Spoonful? 'Yeah.' We set up at lunch as separate people and by four in the afternoon we were a band.
(Source : not known)