It’s Friday and it’s Free!

No, not a giveaway.  Free, the rock band.  I suppose they ever so slightly pre-date me as I remember this song had been out maybe a couple of years when I started at Church Youth Club as a mere sprog.  Ah…Church Youth Club …the stories I could tell, and they have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with church or religion.  If the Reverend only knew…  Or, come to think of it, with all the running around he did, I think he probably did! 

This band had the coolest sound.  I remember this track being played and lots of the young blokes launching into their air guitar moves - so funny now I look back.  What is all that air guitar business about anyway?  How about learning it ‘for reals’? 

Free had a remarkably short career together but produced some great music.  With the slight difference in timings of their career and my early/developing music tastes I know them best for : All Right Now, Wishing Well and My Brother Jake – all great tracks.  It seemed piggy to post all three videos, but I am going to post two.  The first because it’s a rock classic (‘All Right Now’) and the second because it’s a nice tribute to singer Paul Rodgers using My Brother Jake.  Paul Rodgers has a tremendous voice and until recently fronted rock band Queen.   

Happy Friday – have a good weekend.

Friday night

Back in the day, around this time on a Friday (it’s now coming up to four o’clock in the afternoon) I started to get the most glorious fluttery butterflies of excitement in my stomach.  Friday nights were my absolute favourite time of the week because I knew I was ~FREE~ for the weekend!  My friend Ally and I would always head out to one of the few nightclubs here and as dance fanatics would literally dance, virtually non-stop, into the wee small hours.  Booze and blokes didn’t figure in the equation at all - it was all about music and dancing.  When I think about it, no wonder I managed to stay rail thin – I invariably skipped any dinner and then danced non-stop for several hours!

I’ve been having a great time looking around YouTube today and I have to say that if the song below had been around for us at the time, we’d have been on that dance floor.  I had been trying to remember the name of this one to find it on YouTube and, you know how it is, you have part of the riff in your head but can’t actually reach the important bit that tells you the title.  I only had to say to my daughter: You know, the one with the OTT guys flying in space and that funny little ‘po-wing’ sound and she knew exactly what I was talking about.  I found it - my happy Friday night ‘boogie on down’ (!) number:  ’Flawless’ by The Ones.  I like the George Michael remix very much, but even though I’m a big fan of his music, I’d have to say that The Ones – the original - is probably better just for the completely OTT outfits and make-up.  Gotta love it…