Andy Fraser, The Bassist Behind Free’s Megahit All Right Now, Has Lost His Battle With Cancer. The 62 year old passed away on Monday morning (16Mar15) at his home in California after years of battling AIDS and cancer.
He was diagnosed with HIV and a form of cancer called Kaposi’s Sarcoma in the 1980s.
Fraser produced and co-wrote Free’s hit All Right Now with singer Paul Rodgers – the song earned the writers a BMI London Million-Air Award in 2006 to mark over three million radio and television plays of the track.
He quit Free in 1972 and formed the short-lived Sharks with guitarist Chris Spedding and drummer Marty Simon. He also fronted the Andy Fraser Band, but he enjoyed most of his success as a songwriter for the likes of Robert Palmer, Chaka Khan, Rod Stewart and Paul Young, among others. Another big hit was Palmer’s 1978 tune Every Kinda People.
Fraser reteamed with his Free songwriting partner Rodgers for 1994’s Woodstock festival.
His final release would be 2005’s solo album Naked… and Finally Free,
Loosing Andy is very personal, no words, sad day. Paul pic.twitter.com/pNQRyroy0u
— Paul Rodgers (@_paulrodgers) March 18, 2015
Source: Press Release Contact Music
Photo: By Rob Mieremet (GaHetNa (Nationaal Archief NL)) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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