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Paul Rodgers's Popular Music Videos
We Will Rock You (Live)
Paul Rodgers
We Are The Champions (Live)
Paul Rodgers
Fat Bottomed Girls (Live)
Paul Rodgers
Hammer To Fall (Live)
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All Right Now (Live)
Paul Rodgers
Reaching Out/Tie Your Mother Down (Live)
Paul Rodgers
I'm In Love With My Car (Live)
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We Will Remember Them
Michael Bolton, Robin Gibb, Paul Rodgers, Hayley Westenra, Mica Paris & Artists Unite To Remember
All Right Now (Live)
Paul Rodgers
Feel Like Makin' Love (Live)
Paul Rodgers
Artist Biography
A dominant voice in the evolution of British blues, Paul Rodgers formed the band Free while he was still a teenager, writing and singing lead on their biggest song, 1970’s "All Right Now," before he'd turned 21. Within a couple of years, the Middlesbrough, UK-born Rodgers moved on to form Bad Company, purveying a tough, steady, unpretentiously direct sound whose peaks—“Bad Company,” “Shooting Star,” “Feel Like Makin' Love,” all of which he wrote or cowrote—became hallmarks of FM radio and helped define '70s hard rock. For as expressive as they could be, Bad Company were surprisingly stripped-down, eschewing the excess of the post-psychedelic era for a workmanlike austerity that might, in some other context, scan almost as punk. Just revisit the band’s 1974 debut (and the first release on Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label), a bone-dry slab of crunchy guitars and booming drums, anchored by Rodgers. His powerful voice marries tenderness and pure muscle and has inspired a generation of vocalists from Freddie Mercury and Ronnie Van Zandt to Bon Jovi and beyond. Reflecting on his own influences, Rodgers said he loved blues and soul in part because technical proficiency always came second to feeling. “They weren’t demonstrating their great singing ability,” he said in an interview with No Depression. “They were expressing an emotion and delivering it.”
Hometown
Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Genre
Rock