Australian singles chart:
The Freak entered the Kent charts on 3 May 1971 and peaked at #27.
Album:
The song is on the album Zoot Out.
Songwriter:
Rick Springfield
Producer:
Howard Gable
Record label of Australian release:
Columbia
Wikipedia:
By 1970, Zoot’s band members had tired of the garish pink outfits and associated harassment and physical abuse of their ‘think pink’ phase. To rid themselves of the bubblegum/teen idol image, they burnt their outfits on TV music show Happening ’70.
They released a hard rock cover of The Beatles’ song, Eleanor Rigby which became their most popular single. That was followed in 1971 by another hard rock song , The Freak, which was their last single before breaking up.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_(band)
This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
Also on Bang a Gong by Zoot:
Eleanor Rigby
Monty and Me
One Times, Two Times, Three Times, Four
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