Chart Position: 4
- #27 bestseller for 1970
- Total Guitar Magazine’s #12 guitar riff
- Lead vocals: Paul Rodgers
- Written by Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers
- Guitar: Paul Kossoff
- Keyboards: Andy Fraser
- Recorded in London U.K.
- Produced by Free
- Written immediately after a U.K. concert which received a tepid response from the audience; the band recognized they needed an up-tempo, crowd-pleasing closer for their concerts
- Paul Rodgers went on to form Bad Company
- This is Free’s biggest U.S. hit single
- Paul Kossoff died in 1976, at only 25 years of age
- Later recorded by Mike Oldfield (1979), Rod Stewart (1994), Megajam 5 (1997), Runaways (1991) and Lemonescent (2003)
The Year in Music 1963 - 1988 