During a brief but intensely creative five-year existence Free recorded some of the most exciting, primal and emotive hard rock of all time.

Fronted by Paul Rodgers, a man whose voice could make a grown man cry, the UK-based band had soul: a quality all too rare within the genre.

Here, USM presents, on vinyl, a collection of hit songs and catalogue gems revealing why Free were quite probably the first and greatest blues-rock band of them all.