Andy Fraser: Free At Last
Roy Trakin, Creem, September 1984
NEW YORK He was 14 when he began playing bass for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers back in '66, and 16 when he joined Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and the late Paul Kossoff in Free two years later.
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