9/12/2023 0 Comments Roger mcguinn chestnut mare![]() It went to number four in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number seven in the UK Singles Chart. I've always had a penchant for punchy horn sections, and Chicago's on "25 or 6 to 4" have that in spades - also a great riff and an excellent wah-wah guitar solo (sadly omitted from the 45rpm single). We used to bop around to this song, incurring the wrath of one of the lecturers who'd insist on singing it in a dreadful mournful voice. Easy, isn't it? It's a great record in every way - the riff, Fraser's bass playing (especially just before Paul Kossoff's guitar solo) and Paul Rodgers vocals all excite, and the chorus is a real sing-along.Īt the start of the Uni Summer Vac I went on a two-week terrestrial ecology field course, camping out in South Devon. In their dressing room after the show they realised they needed a real banger of a song with which to close their set, so bassist Andy Fraser just sat down and wrote "All Right Now" in ten minutes. The song came about after the band played a poorly-received gig in Durham. It was also ranked at number 155 in the 2004 "Rolling Stone" list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Sadly Free had to settle for second place behind Mungo Jerry, but it went to number four in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and number two in the UK Singles Chart. ![]() There was a titanic struggle for the title of "Best Summer Hit of 1970" between the execrable novelty-pop of "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry and one of the all-time great records, "All Right Now" by Free. ![]()
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