Paul Rodgers Free Spirit - Fire & Water - Celebrating the Music of Free Spirit

Performed as part of the Free Spirit Celebrating the Music of Free from Royal Albert Hall in the UK, Fire and Water reached No. 2 on the U.K. album chart, being listed on it for a total of eighteen weeks. In contrast, neither of the band’s prior two studio albums had charted at all. Fire and Water additionally reached No. 17 on the U.S. chart. Fire and Water is the third studio album by the English rock group Free. It became the band’s breakthrough, achieving widespread commercial success after the band’s first two studio albums had faced a more muted response. With the “tremendous“ acclaim of Fire and Water at their backs, in the words of AllMusic, Free headlined the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival and “appeared destined for superstardom“. The album spawned the popular single “All Right Now“, praised by publications such as AllMusic as a hard rock “smash powered by [Paul] Rodgers’ gritty, visceral vocals“. The song became a Top five rock hit i