Paul Rodgers
Paul Bernard Rodgers (born December 17, 1949 in Middlesbrough ) is a British musician who also has Canadian citizenship. He became known as the singer of the rock bands Free and Bad Company . He was the singer on the Queen + Paul Rodgers project . He announced his departure from the project in May 2009. Rolling Stone voted him 55th of the 100 best singers of all time .
Life
Rodgers grew up with blues , soul, and rock 'n' roll . In his early youth he wrote his own songs before he could play an instrument. His father bought him his first guitar at the time. Rodgers later taught himself to play the piano and bass .
Paul Rodgers began his public career at the age of 13 when he was already playing in clubs around Middlesbrough. His last band in Middlesbrough was Roadrunners before he moved to London after graduating from school and formed the blues band Brown Sugar , for which he sang, played guitar and wrote songs. Since there was a blues revival in London at the time , he often had the opportunity to admire stars like Muddy Waters live, which had a strong influence on his later career.
During his time at Brown Sugar , Paul Kossoff (shortly before Black Cat Bones ) saw him and decided to start a band with Rodgers, Simon Kirke , who had also played with Black Cat Bones, and Andy Fraser , which Alexis Korner after a gig in Nags Head pub of Battersea name Free was.
After their dissolution in 1973 he founded the band Bad Company with Simon Kirke , which he left in the early 1980s to start a solo career. Following the release of his 1983 debut album Cut Loose , he starred in The Firm (two albums released) and The Law (one album). Members of these bands were artists like Jimmy Page ( The Firm ) or Kenney Jones ( The Law ), who had already been very successful in rock music in the 1960s and 70s. Guest musicians such as Bryan Adams and Chris Rea also played at The Law .
In 1993, two tribute albums for Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters followed . The latter was nominated for a Grammy and includes appearances by guest musicians such as Slash , Richie Sambora , Jeff Beck , Steve Miller , Buddy Guy and David Gilmour . After an appearance at Woodstock II in 1994, he formed a backing band the following year , with which toured for over a year, before his next solo album was released in 1997, which he promoted with a tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd .
In 2002 Rodgers and Kirke reanimated their old band Bad Company for a few US dates and immortalized this event on the live CD and DVD Merchants of Cool . In 2004, Rodgers performed with many stars at London's Wembley Arena to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Fender Stratocaster . From 2005 to 2008 he was singer on the world tours of Queen + Paul Rodgers . With both Brian May and Roger Taylor and Rodgers himself expressed that he was not the official replacement for the 1991 late Queen singer Freddie Mercury could be. The name of the joint project is therefore "Queen + Paul Rodgers". In 2008 her studio album The Cosmos Rocks was released , which was awarded silver in Great Britain .
In the summer of 2013, Paul Rodgers was working on two solo albums at the same time. For The Royal Sessions he recorded classic soul songs by Sam & Dave ( I Thank You ) or Otis Redding ( I've Been Loving You Too Long ) at Willie Mitchell's Royal Studios in Memphis . The other should consist of new original compositions.
Solo discography
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- 1983: Cut Loose
- 1991: The Law , with Kenney Jones
- 1993: Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters
- 1994: Paul Rodgers and Friends: Live at Montreux (edited 2011)
- 1997: Now
- 1997: Live (The Loreley Tapes) (Live)
- 1999: Electric
- 2007: Live in Glasgow (Live)
- 2009: Live at Hammersmith Apollo 2009 (Live)
- 2013: The Royal Sessions
- 2017: Celebrating the Music of Free (Live)
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- ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=192788
- ↑ a b UK chart history
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
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| SURNAME | Rodgers, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodgers, Paul Bernard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rock musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Middlesbrough , England |