| "Freedom Come, Freedom Go" | ||||
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| Single by The Fortunes | ||||
| from the album That Same Old Feeling | ||||
| B-side | "There's a Man" | |||
| Released | August 20, 1971 | |||
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| Length | 3:16 | |||
| Label | Capitol ST-809 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway | |||
| The Fortunes US singles chronology | ||||
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"Freedom Come, Freedom Go" is a pop song by The Fortunes. It was the third of three releases from their That Same Old Feeling album, and saw the band revive their fortunes by working in a Britgum idiom.[2]
The song became an international hit in 1971, reaching the top 10 in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand and the top 20 in Australia. It was a minor hit in North America, where it was released as "Freedom Comes, Freedom Goes" and got most of its airplay on easy listening/MOR stations.
In 2002, Robin Carmody of Freaky Trigger named it among ten British bubblegum pop classics, describing it as the genre's most "socially significant" song.[1] He wrote that it brought social commentary to the genre "without sounding forced or strained: it's the sound of London on the cusp, the upper-middle-class ... getting down to the sounds of reggae from the estate just a mile away over in the safe Labour seats, gradually breaking down ancient class divisions as the effects of the 60s seep into life as most people live it."[2]
- ^ a b Carmody, Robin (1 January 2002). "The Cottage Industry of Moments". Freaky Trigger. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Carmody, Robin (1 January 2002). "The Cottage Industry of Moments". Freaky Trigger. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2022.