“The chorus wrote itself, the chords took me about 10-15 minutes and then Paul came up with the verses while he was waiting for a lift to a gig the next day!”: How one of the greatest rock anthems of all time was created in the wake of a nightmare show

Paul Rodgers in Free.

It was the song that gave the four members of Free their first taste of international stardom in the summer of 1970 – but the rock classic All Right Now was in fact inspired by one of the worst gigs the band ever played.

The song was written by bassist Andy Fraser and singer Paul Rodgers, and as Fraser recalled, the words in the title came to him after a “terrible” show at a college in Durham – on a “rainy Tuesday” that was “cold and miserable” with the band arriving at the venue in a “pretty foul mood”.