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Fire and Water is the third studio album by English rock group Free. Unlike their previous albums Tons of Sobs and Free it was a huge success, reaching #2 in the UK charts and #17 in the American, making it the most successful Free album. This is largely due to the album containing the hit single "All Right Now" which they later played to a crowd of over 600,000 people at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival, which generated them huge publicity. To this date it is the only Free album to have seen a CD reissue in America. Recording The album carried on the Fraser/Rodgers writing partnership that characterized the bulk of the Free canon, with five of the seven tracks being credited to them. The album was made very much with the intention of gaining the band a hit single: the band only had one song ("The Hunter" from Tons of Sobs) that would generate the ecstatic reaction they desired from an audience and they badly needed another. This commercialized ethos is immediately obvious: many of the tracks seem to be intended to be listened to individually rather than as a coherent whole and as such the relationship between the songs is less distinct than on the band's previous albums. The tracks are arranged in a fairly basic form of alternating fast songs with slow ones. Like their previous album there is little that could be called hard rock such as their debut album had contained, with the album continuing the fairly lightweight soulful sound of their previous album. There are also n
