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EP157 - Chris Free - A Craze - Songwriter, Musician, Respond Records

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On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, I am joined by songwriter, musician Chris Free.

He was one half of the duo A Craze who were signed to Paul Weller’s Respond record label in the early 1980s.

We chat about his love of punk including The Jam and The Clash and his first band The Users, to meeting Lucy Barron, forming A Craze and getting signed to the project.

The band played on the Respond package tours, on line ups featuring Tracie Young, The Questions and Vaughan Toulouse. They were also on the bill for the BBC broadcast gig featuring The Style Council at the Paris Theatre in London.

A Craze released one single, the Paul Weller produced Wearing Your Jumper and featured on the Respond sampler LP, Love the Reason with their song Keeping the Boys Amused.


Chris and Lucy also wrote Give It Some Emotion which got to 24 in the UK charts and You Must Be Kidding which was the b-side to Soul's On Fire...


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On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, I am joined by songwriter, musician Chris Free.

He was one half of the duo A Craze who were signed to Paul Weller’s Respond record label in the early 1980s.

We chat about his love of punk including The Jam and The Clash and his first band The Users, to meeting Lucy Barron, forming A Craze and getting signed to the project.

The band played on the Respond package tours, on line ups featuring Tracie Young, The Questions and Vaughan Toulouse. They were also on the bill for the BBC broadcast gig featuring The Style Council at the Paris Theatre in London.

A Craze released one single, the Paul Weller produced Wearing Your Jumper and featured on the Respond sampler LP, Love the Reason with their song Keeping the Boys Amused.


Chris and Lucy also wrote Give It Some Emotion which got to 24 in the UK charts and You Must Be Kidding which was the b-side to Soul's On Fire...


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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