Free Appreciation Society Magazine
Issue #181
December 2025
And so to the penultimate issue of the FAS magazine, and there's still a lot to cover. This time it's the more interesting compilations that have been released over the years following 'The Free Story'. That includes 'Free & Easy, Rough & Ready', and 'Completely Free' for the UK, 'Best Of Free' on A&M Records in the USA, and 'Pop Chronik' in Germany rounding up the vinyl, before we look at the better CD collections, avoiding the trash you don't need to even consider. So the CD section includes 'Molten Gold: The Anthology', 'An Introduction To Free', the 'Songs Of Yesterday' boxed set, along with a few others.
You'll find surprises here on vinyl from Yugoslavia, Japan and Singapore, with alternative covers, and track listings! Also the period press, reviews, adverts, and all the release information you'll need. This takes us up to 2012, and the announcement of the unreleased 'big box'. More on that in #182
There is a diary section here, which completes all the information I have regards the Basing Street Studios for Free, Sharks, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser, Rabbit and Bad Company. This includes recording information, dates, and what was recorded when. This fills in a number of gaps including the Fraser/Miller sessions, and the unreleased third Sharks album recordings with John Entwistle, that are NOT lost, as is often reported.
There's also an audio addendum on P6 that you'll find up here on the blog a couple of days after the UK issues are mailed, which was today.
Plenty
of information to keep you busy over Christmas in a 48 page magazine. All issues are now in the post and on their way to subscribers.
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It is cheaper to buy directly here (from the FAS itself) than it will be on Ebay, where there are other fees involved for both UK and overseas buyers. ALL payments are via Paypal, so it's all very easy and secure. Casual buyer? Want the magazine cheaper? Get a subscription! A subscription is the cheapest way to get the FAS magazine. For subscription information email: fasarticle@aol.com
You can buy this individual issue from the email address above. Total is £7.50 via Paypal for the UK, a three issue subscription is £19.10
Overseas it's £26 (via Paypal). Buying from the FAS directly should save you on customs charges, and fees, now levelled directly via Ebay, which will not be added here as items will be sent as 'letters'.
Drop me a mail giving your location and a Paypal money request will be sent to you. It's cheaper than buying them on Ebay where the fees add up making this issue almost £8 in the UK, and way more overseas as they now add taxes to the total. So;
UK single issue £7.50 (Paypal)
Overseas single issue £9.80 (Paypal)
I
should point out that a three issue subscription will allow you to get any
three issues currently, assuming I have them in 'stock'. So #180, #181 and #182, or #179, #180. #181
etc.
