Free Appreciation Society Magazine - Issue #163

Free Appreciation Society

Magazine Issue #163

May 2022

Free Appreciation Society Magazine - Issue #163

A few moments ago I dropped the UK subscription issues at the post office. Overseas magazines went out on Monday and Tuesday. I was intending to post these UK issues out next week, but they were ready to go - so why hold them up! We had enough delays during Covid. This will be the last issue for a while, School will be OUT for the summer!

Just as promised this follows hot on the heels of #162 and completes our pentalogy taking us up to the first 'official' split of Free (Andy once told me they used to split up ever other week unofficially!). We deal with the release of the 'Free Live!' album, and touch gently only our journey into the splinter bands, which is coming next. Issues #159 - #163 deal exclusively with January 1971 to the end of June 1971, and everything that happened in that period.

This magazine deals specifically with the world releases of 'Free Live!'. This includes copies from everywhere, UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Malaysia, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Japan... even South Korea! It's very comprehensive. Test pressings, promotional pressings, cover variations, label variations and alterations, LPs, cassettes, 8-tracks and CDs! It also details the different pressing and mastering variations, with matrix numbers, and the differences in sound (including edits) over the many assorted versions. The issue is fully illustrated in colour throughout.

There's also a re-examination of the possible Free 'Top Of The Pops' performance for 'My Brother Jake' including which shows actually featured the song, and the current 'for and against' arguments for them actually performing in the 'TOTPs' BBC studio in April, 1971. The footage, should there be any, is still 'lost' of course, but possible dates are nailed down.

Finally there is the complete FREE diary for January 1971 to the end of June 1971 with all the tour dates, studio recording details and release information. Far more comprehensive than the version in 'Heavy Load', updated here for the first time in over twenty years!

This issue checks in at 56 pages and covers quite a bit of stuff we've never included before. There are two addendums in this new issue, and they will be coming to the FAS 'blogspot' in a couple of days. So be sure to come back and check them out when you reach them in the text.

A hugely comprehensive issue. Enjoy!

56 pages absolutely packed with FREE

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