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Free: Fire and Water

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Label: Island Records
Released: 1970.06.26
Time:
 35:01
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Free, John Kelly, Roy Thomas Baker
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.freetheband.co.uk
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Fire and Water (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 4:02
[2] Oh I Wept (P.Rodgers/P.Kossoff) – 4:26
[3] Remember (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 4:20
[4] Heavy Load (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 5:19
[5] Mr. Big (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers/S.KirkeP.Kossoff) – 5:55
[6] Don't Say You Love Me (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 6:01
[7] All Right Now (A.Fraser/P.Rodgers) - 5:32

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Paul Rodgers – Vocals, Producer
Paul Kossoff – Guitars, Producer
Andy Fraser – Bass Guitar, Piano, Producer
Simon Kirke – Drums, Producer

John Kelly - Producer
Roy Thomas Baker - Co-Producer
Roy Baker - Engineer
Richard Polak - Photography
Mike Sida - Cover Design, Artwork
Pamela Colman Smith - Drawing
Hiroshi - Photography
Richard Polak - Photography

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1970 LP Island Records - ILPS 9120
1988 CD Island Records - CID 9120

Recorded in January - June 1970 at Trident Studios and Island Studios, London



If Fleetwood Mac, Humble Pie, and Foghat were never formed, Free would be considered one of the greatest post-Beatles blues-rock bands to date, and Fire and Water shows why. Conceptually fresh, with a great, roots-oriented, Band-like feel, Free distinguished itself with the public like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple did (in terms of impact, only) in 1970. Free presented itself to the world as a complete band, in every sense of the word. From Paul Kossoff's exquisite and tasteful guitar work, to Paul Rodgers' soulful vocals, this was a group that was easily worthy of the mantle worn by Cream, Blind Faith, or Derek & the Dominos .

Matthew Greenwald - AllMusic.com



Fire and Water is the third studio album released by English rock group Free. The album became the band's breakthrough hit, reaching #2 in the UK charts and #17 in the US, making it the most successful Free album. The album contained the hit single "All Right Now" which they later played to a crowd of over 600,000 people at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, generating great popularity[citation needed]. To date, it is the only Free album to have seen a CD reissue in America. In 2001 the album was reissued with extra tracks, consisting only of alternate versions of songs already on the album. They include an alternate vocal take of "Oh I Wept" and a remix of "Fire and Water" to correct many of the production deficiencies that the original contains[citation needed]. This version of the song does not fade out; instead Simon Kirke's final drum solo is performed to the end resulting in this version being twenty-one seconds longer than the album version. A BBC Session of this song is also included.

The extra tracks also include three different versions of "All Right Now": one is a BBC session; one is the edited version that was released as a single. It runs at 4:18, one minute and fourteen seconds less than the album version: the final verse is gone and the guitar solo is heavily cut down, a fact that Kossoff disliked. The final version of the song is an early take that was never used. In 2008 the album was issued again as a 2CD Deluxe Edition with twenty-three extra tracks. Most of these bonus tracks had previously appeared on the Songs of Yesterday box set, but five previously unreleased alternate versions were also included.

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