Free - Heartbreaker

[BadKittyjb]

To hear the Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes version of Heartbreaker search youtube for "Joe Bonamassa feat. Glenn Hughes - Heartbreaker"! From Joe's Dust Bowl CD which is A.W.E.S.O.M.E.! Bad Kitty

[Izzycuddles09]

Love this music.

[jefica123]

Metaseverity, I did that but something about UMG and not available in my country stuff came on.All The Free songs are available except for this. Don"t know why?

[Metaseverity]

@jefica123 i'll take a look, see if i can give it a fix

[jefica123]

Wow! sure bring back a lot of memories . Anyone with COMMON MORTAL MAN? Seems to be missing from Youtube

[Metaseverity]

@jefica123 if you take a look at my vids, you'll find what you're looking for. no idea just why it doesn't show up in search. merry xmas

[PaulGStewart]

Putting the power into flower power

The vastly underrated and influential blues rock band Free

Paul Rodgers voice is outstanding, makes me weep

Gets me in the soul and makes it bleed

4 guys and some instruments

Not over produced or computer altered vocals

F**k you x factor is right, you are servants of Satan and defiling all that is pure with your simple minded banality

THIS is where its at

[lundgrp]

Fantastic - got the original LP . music doesn't have to be overproduced, all you need is 4 musicians with talent.. you don't need fancy software to correct your voice.X Factor eat your heart out

[danielthebear1]

All 4 is equally good Drum Bas Guitar and vocal. all play so good that bring the soul out of the song.down the road this song were never die.just like Robert Johnson he is a solo,Free is one of those group,many people call the 2nd cream it is cren all 3 is equally good so is FREE

[GravityBoy72]

Back then music had integrity, Not seen musical integrity for years now.

[GravityBoy72]

Fantastic. Free are vastly underrated. Ridiculous because they were masters of blues rock.

[4pendragon]

Message, riff, power ! I still remeber this ...

[11kirky]

Hey guys, one of the best riffs ever, if you like this version listen to Joe Bonamassas version, he's a massive Kossof fan, and glenn hughes from deep purple does some of the vocals on the track. go easy all.

[jaynemercier]

thank you for posting. always loved this album! i think it showcases paul rodgers amazing voice at it's very best...

[tmarti47]

This is a totally great album. I wonder if this song maight have inspired Pat Benatar's "Hell is for Children". The melody is kind of similar. what do you guys think?????

[ewmehmo]

this song touches deep in my soul... i wish that more kids with my age liked this kind of music, not those shitty pop songs

[SHITONASTICK1100]

god dam i bought this album a few weeks back. It was £3 i feel like im insulting Free.

[yugabriel]

the best song i've ever heard! could anyone help me? i can't find it to download ;\

[ifihadafish]

@yugabriel You need the whole CD - great album!

[sabrehill1]

i've never heard this tune before but had a feeling it would be good cuz of the band

been youtube surfing

class

[crabbitgit]

If I died listening to Free I would die happy!

[jammers5]

Just found out that the Joe Bonomassa version of this was actually a cover of a Free song - didn't know that ....cool!!!

j5

[floretom]

@jammers5 Me too.

[rtsinister]

I was fortunate enough to see these guys open up for TRAFFIC in 1972 in El Paso TX

AWESOME show!

[Phatomrunner]

An amazing rock sound, with such a strong underlying riff. Just wish you could still hear this sort of thing live!

[WildBlue1900]

3 people dislike this? Shakes head in utter disbelief.

[Shootfighter2001]

WOW YOU ALL HAVE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW JOE BONAMASSA VERSION WITH GLENN HUGHES. ITS EARTH SHATERING, FEELS LIKE THEY ARE SLICING THROUGH THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE.

[happyenjoytime]

Ignore those 3 silly girls. FREE - my solace when problems ... shut out the boring world crap!!! Turn to maxvol and ....

[blooeuterpian]

I cannot think of a modern band that may stand the test of time as a band like FREE have ?

This is great rock music not just nostalgia and my age ??

It stirs something in me ..............I feel ALIVE , Uplifted ...inspired .

Thank you

[stealyourface73]

@blooeuterpian - I agree FREE was an amazing band. & most music nowadays doesn't cut it. But, there are a few... Gov't Mule for sure!

I highly recommend anyone & everyone check out Gov't Mule, if you dig rock the way it used to be.

Gov't Mule also put FREE's "Mr Big" on their debut album in '94.

Check them out. I bet you'll dig them.

[samsaricillusions]

They dont call him the voice for nothing.Without a doubt the greatest vocals in rock ever....!!!!!! 

[brixhamrfc]

Whilst the Beatles could make a guitar gently weep, Paul could make a guitar cry !! Never better illustrated than on this track.....how 3 people can dislike this is beyond me !!

[mikexlong]

@brixhamrfc well it was clapton that made that guitar weep actually.

[elgrovez13]

@brixhamrfc Actually that was Clapton making the guitar gently weep, but Harrison did write that great tune. That was the Beatles though, great song writing and not a lot of technical prowess on the instruments. Good singers too.

[Izzycuddles09]

@brixhamrfc i know now it ,s 4 i don,t know how anyone can dislike.this great music.

[Jakster840]

I used to be a classic rock junkie... now im into extreme metal. Its still nice to come back listen to some tunes that I havent listened to in years!

[MrSammyDjr]

dont ever take for granted what you have the generation that grew up in the 60s and 70s didn't realize what we had musically now look at what we got it is a shame

[dinkeldal]

soms vergeet je dat deze song zoveel heeft betekent ,,, ik hing uit het raam en keek naar het noorden waar jij toendertijd woonde... zo verliefd en wanhopig en in mijn slaapkamer draaide ik the Free Heartbreaker amazing song

[BobTheRecordGuy]

@ Ethereo - Following Free each member had sucess to greater or lesser degree but always great music and always the sound of FREE can be heard. Fraser - the great and underrated SHARKS. Kossoff a killer solo album and then the band BACK STREET CRAWLER. Unfortunately then dead for real. RODGERS and KIRKE - Bad Company (and for Rodgers, THE FIRM - less said about thm, the better). Later members Tetsu > FACES. Rabbit Bundrick > WHO sideman etc.

[GOODY61]

@BobTheRecordGuy I think the Firm about about 3 to 4 quality tracks on each album. Not as strong as Paul Rodger's other projects but nothing to be ashamed about.

[BobTheRecordGuy]

@ Ethereo - you can find out the history iof this band (or any band) by looking them up on the AMG (Allmusic.com). The simple story is that the members had some bands before Free but nothing that's of much consequence. Free stayed together for 4 albums I think but Kossoff's drug problems made him a liability. Around the time of this 5th album (Heartbreaker) he was in and out of the band, so he doesn't do ALL the guitar on the album but what he does do is great.

[wolfgar50]

KICK ASS ROCK N ROLL...

[rukh494]

is ever the D best blues song forever .

[rfw45]

Heard recently that Christina Aguleria thought that Paul Rodgers was the greatest Rock singer ever. Interesting huh?

[SamanthaHelen1008]

Fantastic!!! Paul's voice is brilliant on this

[rfw45]

Paul Rodgers. yeah!!!

[acerb45666555]

super vocals!

[enorbet2]

While this is a good album, this cut is special and unique. IIRC, this is the only cut on it that had the peerless Paul Kossof on lead guitar. Clapton may have asked how he did it, but he never mastered Paul's sick vibrato. Amazing tone and feel.

[omegapointil]

Writing that just fits their individual styles and unique qualities like they evloved in unison over centuries. Operatic drama imbued mystic sound that sends you to places that only ancient mythologies could evoke. Those days me and my crew used to sit in black light filled rooms with posters of MC Escher drawing that lit up from that light and smoked shit out of a gas mask that had a hookah bowl attached to the end of a corrugated hose. Anybody remember hot knives?

Those were the days!

[jnkyrdd0g]

@omegapointil yep...i remember hot knives well...good times indeed : )

[Ethreo]

First I should state that I have the utmost respect for this music. I became lost in the inter connections of bands of this period. Such as The Yardbirds/ Led Zepp, Small Faces/ Humble Pie, Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground, The Zombies/ Argent. And so on. I was Born in '80 but I have lived off this music yet was led astray in my teens to the BS seattle crap but i regained my senses about 10 years ago. Could someone that actually lived in this period fill me in on the intricacies of their history?TY

[bigjohnthered1]

First heard this when I was ten or eleven thats 20 years ago now and still love it this is probably the album that got me into music in the way I am today!!!!

[bluesbhoystu]

Not having the greatest of times .Thought hard about how to pick myself up .This was the answer .The greatest thing to ever happen to music ,Rodgers voice with the best band he ever played with ,young and bold .Thanks for the post man .[MUCH NEEDED}cheers

[dinkeldal]

the free rock muziek die ik oerendhard draaide op mijn kamertje dat te klein bleek voor al die decibels

de buren zijn dan ook fan geworden van The Free...het was voor hen een signaal om te gaan wandelen... de buurman is 20 kilo afgevallen en voelt zich nog fit ondanks zijn 87 jaar!

de buurvrouw is 88 jaar maar doof aan een oor

the free amazing sound from the 60 en 70 tis

[redrooster6666]

if this doesnt make you nod your head, get someone to check your pulse!

[VelPrzykry]

Wspaniała płyta. Pamiętam jak Tomek Beksiński prezentował ją w jakiejś audycji (w końcu lat 80-tych) w cyklu "Arcydzieła rocka". Mam kasetę z jego zapowiedziami.

Łza się w oku kręci.

[stevewilks99]

brilliant song brilliant album

[fendermytc90]

Ahhhh – nostalgic!!!

Great vocals from Paul Rodgers and loved the band.

Check out the album Tribute to Muddy Waters a great double album

[SCHLOWEISS]

this band - what can I say!

put it this way, not many about now!

[z603dauren]

This one Heartbreaker and Purple`s Mistreated are so soulfull bluesy songs!

BTW! I know that Ritchie took the main riff of the Heartbreaker to his Rainbow`s song called Tearin` out my heart~!! Blackmore always has a respect to Paul Rodgers!

[patrickmichels]

Still like the live version from The Free Story lp. I don't know if this Heartbreaker live is on the cd version but if you get a chance it rips. This song whether studio or live is simply incredible I love Free one of the best of all time with Purple, Zeppelin and Cream, Hendrix.

[boog560]

a tip for everybody get a copy of the free story with thelive version of this song on it kossoff blows the fucking doors off with two saering solos that jimmy page couldntdo as long as he's got a hole up his arse rip koss

[3105maldini]

Paul - at his very best! 

[QVXS77]

Superbe track, one my fave FREE tracks. Kossoff is great and didn't get enough recognition for his work on this...............and....how can "Wishing well" not credit him?? Shurely shome mishtake? I can hear him!

[SUNSHINESBETER]

free forever..forever free. very fine track n album, much luv n that!

[123ThisIsMe]

'My maker must have been a hard heartbreaker' ...what a great line!

Same with 'Im wasting my whole life trying to make a new start'

Great song in all ways and always ...

Thanks for uploading

[reliablebow]

great song!.....no more tryin'

[cissactiger]

i remember strutting around my bedroom with the hose from the hoover thinking i was the man himself!!! well we are all allowed a bit of dillusional fore thought

[DominicHunt]

I'm 18 in 3 days, i just wish i was 18 in the late 60s/early 70s instead. The music back then is amazing, i would do anything to see Free live, they're incredible.

[jenniesimpson76]

@DominicHunt Im 34 this month and luckily my father introduced me to this music when i popped out. THANK YOU DAD. Im forever in your debt. Might have introduced me to a bit of acdc though!!

[rockahead]

Kossoff is on this album more than he is credited for. For instance he isn't credited on the track Wishing Well but he plays throughout that track including the solo. I know because both Paul Rodgers and Rabbit told me . I think at the time they were excercising a little but of tough love because Koss did perform on the tour to promote Heartbreaker in the UK but left following the tour and was replaced by Wendell Richardson.

[rockahead]

Kossoff is on this album more than he is credited for. For instance he isn't credited on the track Wishing Well but he plays throughout that track including the solo. I know because both Paul Rodgers and Rabbit told me . I think at the time they were excercising a little but of tough love because Koss did perfrom on the tour to promote Heartbreaker in the UK but left following the tour and was replaced by Wendell Richardson.

[Mixtupabit]

You can hear bits of Kossoff playing on the album ( come together in the morning and bits of wishing well for example)..He appeared so infrequently at the sessions that he is only credited as a "contributer" on the sleeve..Rodgers played a lot of guitar on the album along with Snuffy Waldron

[Mixtupabit]

This was the last studio Free album ..Andy Frazer had left and Kossoff was so wrecked by the drugs he hardly played on it..(most of the guitar being done by Rodgers)..Tetsu and Rabbitt were playing bass and keyboards hence the "unfree " like sound..still great though mainly through Rodgers vocals ..

[capetown99]

I think Paul Kossoff was involved in this album more than what he was given credit for. He was easily involved on half of the album. The solo on this defintley sounds like him.

[kjgoya777]

Kossoff is brilliant. Touted as joing Page, Beck and Clapton as the greatest guitarists alive - but he died!

[Andreagear4]

Der Guitaren part ist einer der beste von Koss und geht unter die Haut, genau wie

bei MOONSHINE. Wahnsinn.

[thindude66]

Paul Rodgers is an excellent vocalist. He made the sound for Free, Bad Company and The Firm.

[ILSAN1000]

I bought the LP

[rfisher45]

amazing band

[DiggermanNo1]

This will always be my ultimate blues-rock album.

Still playing it after 36 years.....

[sam4u2004w]

I am in complete agreement with you...

..this song still rocks heavy !!....an

awesome jam, both music and

lyrics !! ( the glory days, indeed !)

[romancutzagiugiuc]

at the beggining...

[romancutzagiugiuc]

Why this song reminds me somehow about the Heartbracker track from Led Zeppelin?.. I'm a little confused..:-?.. or it's just me.. :))

[DiggermanNo1]

No, its just you.

[rmf09020]

ritchie blackmore tried to get paul rodgers to sing for rainbow after dio left the band. It would have been nice to see that.

[gautebjotveit]

Your the man, thanks. Heard of Humble pie? Dig it 2 the bone

[GaryMilnes]

I wouldnt go as far as saying Coverdale was known for perfect pitch, Ive seen him when he sounds a bit ropey round the gills, Ive also seen plant loose it a little at times,

Yes Rodgers was approached by purple and with Blackmore I dont think Rodgers would have been at his best, but had he joined when Bolin was at the guitar, i think we could have seen Free reborn and much better... if only uh??

[karlforston]

Something that Coverdale and Rodgers are quite well known for is PERFECT PITCH. Check out as much live work from each and you will hear what I mean. Compare that to say some live work from Zep or say Aerosmith and you should hear the difference. No offense to Bob Plant or Steven Tyler it's just that Paul and David were much better live. At least that it what I found as a concert goer in the 70's.

[Nastybutzky]

Misteated and Heartbreaker share the same tempo and the basic idea is the same in many ways.

[bloobear1]

Yeah, of course they do ...variations of pentatonic scale 'blues scale'

[BARROOMBOOGIE]

Music does not get better than this, this song the production and everything about it gets into your veins, have always loved this song..thanks for posting

[Nastybutzky]

Great music indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[karlforston]

Shear power and beauty all rolled into one. Today's music is soulless in comparison

[facundo98]

It sounds like 'Mistreated' from Deep Purple...welll the history its veeery large..

[jax1moi8]

Somehow Purple's "Mistreated" always sounded a little bit put on to me, like they were doing a blues song instead of really playing the blues. Free's "Heartbreaker" comes across as the real thing. And BTW, Purple was considering Paul Rodgers before they got Cloverdale. That would have been interesting!

[preshy50]

Don't think Paul was considering them tho. think he said no when he was approached

[Nastybutzky]

The Purple guy's name is David Coverdale in the first place. And yea Paul Rodgers was asked to join them but he refused and I've heard somewhere that he even recommanded Coverdale instead. Purple wanted to do a blues album after Ian Gillan left so they needed a blues singer with a deep soulful voice.

[aaronblackmore]

what???????? this was released one year before. please, listen to tearin' out my heart, from rainbow's bent out of shape..... the riff sounds really similar

[facundo98]

Mmm...really, what i've heard was that in the 1971 Blackmore got a some project due to its think about to leave Deep Purple, in what it was involved, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, himself, Phil Lynott and...Paul Rodgers. Also, ive heard that it maybe in some time, Blackmore and Rodgers shared and a session studio...maybe this Heartbreaker and the later Mistreated was the same song, but with differents shape. Maybe, i can't confirm that.

[verbusen]

My older brother had a lot of records and I would try them all out with headphones in the mid 70's and aged 11. This one got

A LOT of playing time! Thanks for the excellent quality post!

[ace51515]

this album is way to ahead of its time

[LEEDSPETER001]

There is an amazing live version of this on youtube - live in Japan I think. Sound qualty only average but a great performance. Check it out

[preshy50]

the live version you mention is actually better. It's raw and sexy just like Paul

[jax1moi8]

I love the way they strip everything down to a raw essence. Sure, there are frills here and there, but they're never overdone. One of the great, but seriously overlooked, rock-blues songs.

[kattzyze]

God, I loved this song--I think I still do

[57250tr]

This is awesome, i take it this is the album cut?

[Metaseverity]

It most certainly is =)

[pichuan1]

@57250tr wait till u listen to "Muddy Water" or the rest of it from Heartbreaker!

its a collector item...