Andy Fraser

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andy Fraser
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1952(1952-07-03)
Age	72
Date Of Death	March 16, 2015, Temecula, CA
Birthplace	Paddington
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Cancer

Andy Fraser Biography

Andy Fraser is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on July 3, 1952 in Paddington, United Kingdom.

Fraser was born in the Paddington area of Central London and started playing the piano at the age of five. He was trained classically until twelve, when he switched to guitar. By thirteen he was playing in East End, West Indian clubs and after being expelled from school in 1968 at the age of 15, enrolled at Hammersmith College of Further Education. There, another student, Sappho Korner, introduced him to her father, pioneering blues musician and radio broadcaster Alexis Korner, who became a father figure to him. Shortly thereafter, upon receiving a telephone call from John Mayall who was looking for a bass player, Korner suggested Fraser; still only 15, he was now in a professional band and earning £50 a week, although it ultimately turned out to be a brief tenure.

Fraser also co-wrote two other hit singles for Free, “My Brother Jake” and “The Stealer”. Free initially split in 1971, and Fraser formed a trio, Toby, with guitarist Adrian Fisher (later with Sparks), and drummer Stan Speake. Material was recorded but not released, and Fraser re-joined Free in December

1971. He left for the second time in June 1972.

Andy Fraser Net Worth

Andy Fraser is one of the richest Musician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andy Fraser 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Andrew McLan Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015) was an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career lasted over forty years, and includes two spells as a member of the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968, aged 15.

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Korner was also instrumental in Fraser’s next move, to the influential band Free, which consisted of Paul Rodgers (vocals), Paul Kossoff (guitar) and Simon Kirke (drums). Fraser produced and co-wrote the song “All Right Now” with Rodgers, a No. 1 hit in over 20 territories and recognised by ASCAP in 1990 for garnering over 1,000,000 radio plays in the United States by late

1989. In October 2006, a BMI London Million-Air Award was given to Rodgers and Fraser to mark over 3 million radio and television plays of “All Right Now”. Simon Kirke later recalled: “‘All Right Now’ was created after a bad gig in Durham. We finished our show and walked off the stage to the sound of our own footsteps. The applause had died before I had even left the drum riser. It was obvious that we needed a rocker to close our shows. All of a sudden the inspiration struck Fraser and he started bopping around singing ‘All Right Now’. He sat down and wrote it right there in the dressing room. It couldn’t have taken more than ten minutes.”

Facts & Trivia

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Having been diagnosed with HIV, he was later diagnosed with Kaposi’s sarcoma, a form of cancer that had been very rare until the onset of the AIDS epidemic. This time-line was called into question by Fraser’s subsequent revelation that he was homosexual. He played bass with former Free colleague Paul Rodgers at Woodstock ’94, but otherwise kept a low profile until 2005, when a new release, Naked and Finally Free, appeared. At the time of the new album’s release, Fraser was interviewed by Dmitry M. Epstein for the DME website and revealed: “To be quite honest, I never thought of myself as a bass-player. I actually only used the bass-guitar because the other kids in our school-band wanted to be the singer, or drummer, or guitarist. I have always thought of myself as doing whatever was necessary to make the whole thing work. I’m happy adding piano, or tambourine, or anything that helped”.

What happened to the bass player from Free?

Bassist Andy Fraser, who co-wrote Free’s 1970 hit All Right Now, has died in California aged 62. The musician died on Monday and he had been fighting cancer and Aids, according to an official statement regarding his death.

Is Andy Fraser still alive?

March 16, 2015

Who played bass for Free?

Andy Fraser

What Bass did Andy Fraser?

Andy with his Gibson EB3 bass. Picture taken from the book Heavy Load: The Story of Free by David Clayton and Todd Smith. The bass pictured is an early example, most likely 1961 or 62, so Fraser most likely got this bass used.

What did Andy Fraser do after Free?

After a short stint with Mayall, Fraser met Kossoff, Rodgers and their drummer, Simon Kirke, in 1968. Within two years, Free were a well-known band. After Free disbanded, Fraser formed a band called Sharks , which recorded a debut album, First Water, released in 1973.