Free Bonzo Family

50 Years Today...

 

Quite a weird one this.

I'm not sure I've have stayed until the end! 

'I'm The Urban Spaceman' had done the business for BDB of course, and having reached #5 in the UK charts had given the band a huge push up the ladder. Never was a fan myself but you gotta love Neil Innes for his work on 'The Rutles'

Valentine's Dance 1969

Valentine's Dance 1969
With Pink Floyd and FREE!!

50 Years Ago Today. The Marquee.

Bob Mortimer's Desert Island Discs

Comedian Bob Mortimer has made a name for himself, alongside partner Vic Reeves, for his surreal and eccentric brand of humour. The pair have been on our screens for over 30 years, in a treasure trove of popular programmes including Shooting Stars, House of Fools, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

 

After undergoing a triple bypass operation in 2015, Bob has branched out and now also works on a popular football podcast Athletico Mince, and his TV series with Paul Whitehouse, Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.

 He loves the rock band Free (and so does Vic Reeves)

 

While Vic and Bob only grew up about 20 miles from each other, they didn’t meet until later in life in London. They love the band Free, both name-checking bass player Andy Fraser in their respective Desert Island Discs. Bob says: “When I was about 13, I went to see this band called Free, who I’d never heard, and I just fell in love with them. I found my heroes. I stood at the front with my chin on the stage.” 

He chooses Free’s On My Way as his second track for the island. 

When Vic was cast away in 2003, he chose Mr Big by Free, claiming that his and Bob’s party piece was to mimic Andy Fraser’s bass solo with their mouths.

 

 Bob's Eight.

• 1  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)

   
• 2 Free
  On My Way

  
  
• 3 Joni Mitchell
  Down To You

  
  
• 4 Madness
  It Must Be Love

  
  
• 5 The Who
  The Punk And The Godfather

  
  
• 6 The Beautiful South
  Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak

  
  
• 7 Squeeze
  Some Fantastic Place

  
  
• 8 Kings of Leon
  King Of The Rodeo

 

 

January 3rd 1969

Wondering what to do with your Sunday?
50 years ago today Free recorded a single....

FAS #144 is coming....

Kossoff - The Band Plays On : Slesser / Buckton Gigs 2018

 





































Wednesday 10th April 2019
Tribeca, Manchester
50 Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3WF
Tickets

Thursday 11th April 2019
The Half Moon Putney, London
93 Lower Richmond Road, London SW15 1EU
Tickets

Friday 12th April 2019
Eleven, Stoke On Trent
21a Newfield industrial Estate, Sandyford, 
Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 5PD

Saturday 13th April 2019
The Musician, Leicester
42 Crafton Street, W.Leicester

Saturday 25th May 2019
Long Street Blues Club, Devises, Wiltshire
SN10 1NW Devizes 30, Long Street

Saturday 6th July 2019
The Stables, Milton Keynes
Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LU

Friday 27th September 2019
The Forum Music Centre, Darlington
Borough Rd, Darlington DL1 1SG

Friday 25th October 2019
Customs House, South Shields
Mill Dam, South Shields, Tyne and Wear NE33 1ES

Free Appreciation Society Magazine - Issue #143

Coming Next Week...

Free Appreciation Society

Magazine Issue #143

October 2018  

Paul Rodgers 'Free Spirit'  2018

Blu-ray Review

Warren Haynes Interview pt.2

Exclusive FAS Interview

Free Begins...

Feature length story of the very origins of FREE

Large 48 Page issue this time with three large articles.

Twelve page report on the Paul Rodgers 'Free Spirit' Blu-ray release of the Royal Albert Hall show in 2017. Two reviews, and a summary from the gig by a reader who was there.

Second and final part of our exclusive Warren Haynes interview following the 'Free' Halloween show in Amsterdam last year. Warren talks about influences, Paul Kossoff and favourite tracks over eight pages.

Feature article 'FREE BEGINS...'

From the very earliest musical rumblings we follow Paul Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and Andy Fraser right up to April 19th 1968 and the very first FREE rehearsal. Twenty-five pages of pre-FREE history with new information, new photographs and a whole new look on how all the original members of our favourite band came together. Absolutely not to be missed.

Exclusive back cover photograph of Free live by Simon Kossoff from the Marquee in London circa winter 1968.

48 colour pages.