Andy Fraser: Out Of It
Mat Snow, Q, April 1991
A rainy night in Shrewsbury was to alter the course of Andy Fraser's life. For it was there in 1970 that he first hummed the opening bars to Free's rock classic All Right Now. Yet, as he tells Mat Snow, within two years their world was falling apart.
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