Paul Kossoff: An Interview with Rock’s Street Crawler
Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1976
THE LATE PAUL KOSSOFF, born in London, September 14, 1950, became the unsung guitar great of Free at the age of eighteen. That short-lived, but successful, English quartet split in 1973, with lead singer Paul Rodgers forming Bad Company and Kossoff emerging with Back Street Crawler.
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