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Paul Rodgers
English
Musician
Born:
Dec 17
,
1949
Free
Me
Music
Own
People
You
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I am proud to be a Canuck.
Paul Rodgers
Proud
Am
You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.
Paul Rodgers
You
People
Punk
Think
Sick
Wave
Had
New
Know
Got
Up
Really
Thing
Here
Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy.
Paul Rodgers
Me
Made
Kid
Course
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Get
Roll
Fan
Fantasy
Whole
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
Hope
Music
Myself
Me
King
Be True
Feeling
Sense
Live
Gave
Teenager
Way
Tell
More
Dave
Through
Songwriter
True
Like
Redding
Make
Learned
Isaac
How
Were
Trying
Sam
Artists
Story
Teachers
Many
Albert
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
Life
Love
Time
Spiritual
Love Life
Everything
Way
About
Something
General
Voice
Feels
Redding
His
Very
Same
Human
Same Time
Really
Connected
Connection
Deeply
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
Personality
Simple
Free
Own
Think
Other
Enough
Our
Way
Ways
Restricting
Develop
Felt
Said
Leaving
Go
Were
Different
Room
Really
Each
Different Ways
I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.
Paul Rodgers
Music
Good
Me
You
To Be Honest
Bit
Out
Good Music
Some
Like
Disco
Came
Really
Honest
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
Song
Old
Seen
Picture
Down
Once
Saw
Bad
Poster
Write
Piano
Reminded
Idea
Beware
Said
Got
Movie
Victorian
Jeff
Sat
Company
Bridges
Started
Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
Paul Rodgers
Great
You
Feeling
Become
Once
Great Feeling
Stays
More
Write
Songs
Songwriter
Because
Always
Just
Want
Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
Paul Rodgers
Free
Band
Young
Back
Miss
Look
Were
Very
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
Soul
Remember
Important
Mistakes
Live
Those
Pretty
Charm
Records
Had
Feel
Still
Were
Lot
Blues
Much
Keep
Early
Kept
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
Experience
First
Club
Summer
Jimi Hendrix
Broke
London
Above
Park
Outside
Hot
Along
Ticket
Singer
Heard
Afford
Listen
Just
Blues
Flat
Pub
Stand
Professional
Evening
Hendrix
Playing
I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.
Paul Rodgers
Sometimes
Bit
Get
I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.
Paul Rodgers
Love
Enough
Some
Because
Still
Years
Then
Strangely
Twenty
Now
Play
Right
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
Together
Queen
Strong
Carried
TV
Would
TV Show
Guys
Join
Said
Been
Years
Up
Did
Realised
Then
Asked
Show
Connection
Suddenly
Found
Four
Played
My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.
Paul Rodgers
Music
Mother
Dance
Young
Kid
Said
Young Kid
Used
Radio
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
Music
Me
Beatles
People
Digging
Back
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Background
Further
Berry
Along
Like
Sort
Always
Got
Came
Soundtrack
Up
Hit
So Many People
Just
Grew
Really
Hard
Many
Started
I come from a working-class family of seven children.
Paul Rodgers
Family
Seven
Come
Children
Working-Class
My dad worked on the Middlesbrough docks.
Paul Rodgers
Worked
Dad
I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.
Paul Rodgers
Age
Conscious
Early
Early Age
It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.
Paul Rodgers
Me
Fly
Important
Just Be
Able
Sing
Hit
Just
Notes
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
Saying
People
Try
Will
Waters
OK
John
John Lee Hooker
Something
Guys
Records
Write
Had
Picked
Studio
Idea
Longevity
Like
Look
Learned
Doing
Were
Lee
Sell
Up
Just
Them
Fantastic
Muddy
Muddy Waters
Who
Thing
Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.
Paul Rodgers
Music
System
Blues
Dynamic
Ever-Changing
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
Emotions
Own
Everybody
Way
Structure
Could
Liked
Also
Because
Blues
Using
Express
Play
I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing.
Paul Rodgers
Amazing
Club
Group
Saw
Marquee
He
Beck
Were
Rod
Holy
Jeff
Jeff Beck
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
Time
Free
Met
Other
Back
Hungry
London
Fondness
Days
Look
Most
Him
Because
Very
Bands
Any
Paul
Each
Believed
Early
Early Days
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