All Right Now Co-Writer Andy Fraser Dies

Andy Fraser, the bassist with Free and co-composer of the band's most famous hit, has died at the age of 62.

The British musician was living in Temecula, California, at the time of his death on Monday.

The coroner's court said the cause of his death was not yet known.

He had been known to have suffered from AIDS and cancer in the past.

Classic Rock magazine quoted an official statement as saying: "Andrew McLan Fraser passed away on Monday at his home in California.

"He leaves behind his daughters Hannah and Jasmine Fraser, and their mother Ri, his sister Gail, brothers Gavin and Alex, and many friends and associates in the industry.

"A survivor of both cancer and AIDS, Andy was a strong social activist and defender of individual human rights."

Fraser started his professional musical career at the age of 15 when he briefly joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that also once featured Eric Clapton.

Fraser left within a year to become a founding member of Free.

He was still a teenager when he co-wrote All Right Now.

The band, fronted by singer and guitarist Paul Rodgers recorded and toured between 1968 and 1973 and produced two top 10 UK hits, one of which was the rock anthem.

It was one of the best-known rock songs of the 1970s and was used in a famous Wrigley chewing gum advert on TV in the nineties.