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'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Arrangement
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I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Reservations
Releasing
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I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Repressed
Fairly
Stiff
Emotionally
Northeast
Upper
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I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Exception
New Music
Work Music Together
Joined
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I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Blues
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When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Blown Away
Heard
Singing
Blown
Club
Leaped
Local
Redding
Sights
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Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is a bit much. I don't know how well I dealt with it.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Bells
Shock
Dealt
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I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Dynamics
Free Spirit
Dug
Expressed
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The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which I'm often asked about. It's that sort of song.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Broader
Many Respects
Respects
Simpler
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A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Dying
Music Business
Shooting
Thought Process
Wow
Time Business Music
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When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Jason
Muddy
Touring
Tribute
Record
Supporting
Waters
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I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Fondness
Hungry
Early Days
Paul
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You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Periods
Record Companies
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When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Pocket
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When I play solo, that's when I put it all together. I go through all of the songs that I've written wtih all of the different bands; that, for me, tells its own story, and the DVDs really enforce that.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Solo
Enforce
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The spirit of the music and the energy that kicks back from the fans inspires me. To stay centered amidst the chaos I meditate. I first meditated at age 17 and have continued off and on through the years.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Age
Inspire
Years
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I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Chuck
Digging
Music Me People
Music Always Me
Berry
So Many People
Soundtrack
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I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Everyday
Relate
Change The World
Experiences
Overnight
Understandable
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A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and mistakes, but it still kept its charm. We have to remember to keep the feel. It's so important.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Charm
Blues
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There are just so many people making music out there. I've always promoted the idea that everybody needs to make music. I think the more music there is in the world, the better, but it does make it highly competitive.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Promoted
So Many People
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When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Teen
Disappear
Home Life
Likes
Months
Okay
Warrior
Drop
Teen Years
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Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Love Life
Life Love Time
Redding
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I didn't 'join' Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on - then I suddenly realised I'd been with these guys for four years. If I'd been called up and asked to join, I would have said no.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Realised
Asked
Carried
Connection
Queen
Join
Suddenly
Tv Show
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There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let's go different ways.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Different Ways
Restricting
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Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Amazing
Blessed
Flying
Wings
Time Day People
Bit
Every Day
Realm
Sing
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There's a lot of trickery that can go on in the studio, and there's a lot that one can do - none of which I am interested in even slightly. I mean, you can actually tune vocals and stuff like that, but it's so hideous, I can't believe it.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Hideous
Trickery
Tune
Vocals
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I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Hometown
Purple
Afterwards
Onion
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When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Peter
Formed
Grant
Led Zeppelin
Manager
Rock Band
Undoubtedly
Zeppelin
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I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Bridges
Victorian
Beware
Jeff
Poster
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When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Hendrix
Established
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I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Performers
Love Together World
Magical
Vehicles
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I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Great People
Wilson
Blues
Influenced
Lee
Moore
Pickett
Redding
Revere
Sam
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I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Corporate
Entity
Expected
Following
Locked
Time Me Free
Any Given Time
Governed
Move On
Stayed
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We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Innovative
Blues
Influenced
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I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Broke
Evening
Hendrix
Blues
Park
Pub
Ticket
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I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London in 1967. It was kind of a blues thing going on, and he came up and said, 'I'd like to have a jam.' So he came up and jammed with me, and I just loved his playing right from the start.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Jam
Time Start Me
Blues
Time Me Start
Park
Paul
Pub
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There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Precise
Different Parts
Onstage
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Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Growing Up
Heart
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I look at John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, guys who had a fantastic longevity, and I learned something from them. They didn't try to sell records. They weren't saying, 'Ok, what can I write, what can I do in the studio that will sell?' They were just doing their thing, and people picked up on it. I like the idea of that.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Longevity
Muddy
Look People Doing
Lee
Picked
Waters
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I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering it. I still have a lot of my old records from back in the day. It's a joy to play things like Junior Wells' 'Hoodoo Man Blues,' and John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. There's a warmth that you can still feel.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Analog
Joy
Records
Warmth
Man Day People
Blues
Clapton
Eric Clapton
John
Junior
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With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Birth
Song
Albert
Original
Blues
Hunter
Material
Otherwise
Phase
Stayed
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Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.
Paul Rodgers / Singer-Songwriter
Dave
Isaac
Albert
Be True
Redding
Sam
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