Free At Last
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studio album
First released:
1972

Overview Edit

Free at Last is the sixth album (fifth studio album) by English rock band Free. The band had broken up in April 1971 due to differences between singer Paul Rodgers and bassist Andy Fraser, the drug problems of guitarist Paul Kossoff, and inconsistent record sales. The four members went their separate ways, but solo projects failed in all cases. Also, with the loss of the band, Kossoff degenerated further into severe depression; he felt guilty for, as he saw it, destroying the band, and this guilt only made the problem worse. It was this factor that led members of the band to set aside their differences and re-form, with the intention of potentially saving the guitarist's life.

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Release dates:
  • Feb 11 2002

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4 stars Under-rated & unfairly maligned album from the original Free
This album seems to be almost uniformly criticized in reviews but I would make a case that it holds its own fairly well against the rest of Free's catalogue. True, it is not all up to the consistent high standard of 'Free and Water' or 'Heartbreaker', but it nevertheless contains much good material and demonstrates clearly the evolving style of the band, away from the relatively simple arrangements of the early albums and towards the keyboard-dominated sound of 'Heartbreaker'. This album was the…
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2 stars A great band on a downhill slide...
Being an avid Free fan you have to appreciate that it isn't really that easy for me to admit that "Free At Last" remains this excellent bands poorest effort by a long stretch.

"Free At Last" represents the final album of the 'classic' free line up - by the time the (funnily enough far superior) follow up "Heartbreaker" appeared Andy Fraser had left the group for good (a real shame) and Paul Kossoff's contributions were pretty minimal.

Anyway, with this album it's simply the culmination of poor s…
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Credits Edit

  1. composer

  2. performer

    1. Andy Fraser [bass]
    2. Paul Kossoff [instrument]
    3. Paul Rodgers [instrument]
    4. Simon Kirke [instrument]
  1. producer

Other versions Edit

Free At Last 9 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Island UK
release dates: Feb 1990 in United Kingdom
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Free At Last 15 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Island UK
catalog number: UICY-9202
release dates: Feb 11 2002
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Free At Last 8 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Feb 11 2002
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