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"Your Average Bloke Chatting Up Your Average Chick": Free's 'All Right Now'

Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2007

'ALL RIGHT NOW' is one of the quintessential cock-rockers – a cruder, more pub-rockish 'Whole Lotta Love'. It's the sound of the longhaired male predator encountering coquettish female resistance. "I just put myself in the position of your average bloke chatting up your average chick and that's timeless," quoth singer-lyricist Paul Rodgers.

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