Originally known as The Midwest Tree Company, these guys changed their name to The Free for this "psych-driven" single from Detroit in 1968. Lead singer Dave Gilbert soon went off to sing for right wing nutjob Ted Nugent. But let's not hold that against him. A job's a job.
Active between '68 and '73, the Free most people know came from That London, fronted by semi-Canadian singer Paul Rodgers, who would later inadvisably try to fill Freddie's shoes in Queen. Personally, I'm more interested in guitarist Paul Kossoff's hairiness as displayed in the photo above.
Y'know, I used to think these guys were awful... but I reckon they're all right now.
If I was forced at gunpoint to name the worst genre of music ever created, I would probably opt for 90s Eurodance. Here we have a prime example, vomited into the world by producers Felix J. Gauder and Olaf Bossi.
No, I take it back. This... whatever this is... is much worse than 90s Eurodance. No wonder they needed two exclamation marks. Plus, one of the blokes looks like a young Danny Dyer, so clearly we all should hate him.
I'd recommend playing this at minimum volume. Or preferably with your speakers completely muted.
American media personality, television producer, singer/songwriter and rapper, Free... AKA Marie Antoinette Wright. Yes, that's her real name. She's managed to blag her way onto records by Missy Elliott, Beyonce and Queen Latifah, not to mention the atrocious Wyclef Jean remix of Another One Bites The Dust (even Paul Rodgers could have done better than that). But here she is on her own, from her unreleased 2007 debut album 'Pressure Free'.
If you got All Shook Up by yesterday's quiz, don't go Crying In The Chapel this Sunday morning. Here's a little Peace In The Valley instead... the answers!
Rain led to a low turn-out yesterday morning, but Lynchie nabbed the early, easy ones. Maybe this quiz is getting too difficult. Maybe it's run its course. Not far from 100... perhaps I'll retire it with the century.
In the meantime... a quick trot through the answers this week with A Little Less Conversation than usual as I'm too tired to write loads.
10. Played by Dexys' error... so good they named him twice.
When Dexys appeared on Top of the Pops singing Jackie Wilson Said, they had a huge picture of Jocky Wilson behind them. Various stories about how this happened - a mistake on the part of the production team or (more likely) Kevin Rowland's wicked sense of humour.
Anyway, Jocky Wilson was a darts player.
New York, New York was so good they named it twice, according to Gerard Kenny.
One I discovered via The Vinyl Villain... though you have to know your comics characters to get the clues. (They changed their name to Eugenius after this release to avoid getting sued by Marvel.)
Steve Rogers is Captain America.
Johnny Storm is the Human Torch. His catch phrase is "Flame On!"
7. Tin Tin's useless investigators give away their identity.
C correctly identified that the gent in the centre of this pic wasn't actually Joe Leeway from The Thompson Twins, but Eddie Grant. My bad, with apologies to all concerned.
The Thompson Twins were named after bumbling detectives in the Tin Tin comics.
2. Sound like they're Riders on the Storm... on the best mixtape you ever made.
As I've written about previously, Dawes are a pretty good band... with a very silly name, considering that they sound exactly the far more famous group from the 60s led by Jim Morrison.
