Paul Kossoff
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| - | Born in 1950 the son of David Kossoff a famous British actor he began on classical guitar. He never really took to classical guitar and soon gave up playing. However in the 60's he saw a | + | Born in 1950 the son of David Kossoff a famous British actor he began on classical guitar. He never really took to classical guitar and soon gave up playing. However in the 60's he saw a gig featuring John Mayhalls Bluesbreakers featuring a certain [[Eric Clapton]] on guitar. This led to Kossoff buying an electric guitar (a vintage Gibson Les Paul) and joining local bands. Most notably he played in a band called Black Cat Bones. Through this Kossoff became good friends with drummer, Simon Kirke with whom he later formed Free. |
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Revision as of 18:19, 22 September 2009
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Introduction
Kossoff was one of Britain’s best ever Blues Rock guitarists. My guess is that many in the GMC community won’t recognise the name depite Kossof being named as the 51st best guitarist in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time! Clearly Kossoff was and is without doubt one of the greats. Everyone will have heard the song All Right Now by Free and thus have heard him play without knowing who it is playing.
He was born in London in September 1950. He was a founding member of Free and his blues based guitar played on his trademark Les Paul defined their sound, at times mellow but at others pure bules based heavy rock.
BIOGRAPHY.
Born in 1950 the son of David Kossoff a famous British actor he began on classical guitar. He never really took to classical guitar and soon gave up playing. However in the 60's he saw a gig featuring John Mayhalls Bluesbreakers featuring a certain Eric Clapton on guitar. This led to Kossoff buying an electric guitar (a vintage Gibson Les Paul) and joining local bands. Most notably he played in a band called Black Cat Bones. Through this Kossoff became good friends with drummer, Simon Kirke with whom he later formed Free.
Discography.
Free
• Tons Of Sobs (1968)
• Free (1969)
• Fire And Water (1970)
• Highway (1970)
• Free Live!(1971)
• Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit (1971)
• Free At Last (1972)
• Heartbreaker (1973)
The following albums were issued after the band ceased recording:
• The Free Story (1974)
• The Best of Free (1975)
• Free and Easy, Rough and Ready (1976)
• Completely Free (1982)
• All Right Now: The Best of Free (1991)
• Molten Gold: The Anthology (1994)
• Free: All Right Now (1999)
• Songs of Yesterday (2000)
• Chronicles (2005)
Solo
• Back Street Crawler (1973)
• Koss (1977)
Back Street Crawler
• The Band Plays On (1975)
• Second Street (1976)
