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Heartbreaker is the sixth and final studio album by the English rock band Free, that provided them with one of their most successful singles, "Wishing Well".It was recorded in late 1972 after bassist Andy Fraser had left the band and while guitarist Paul Kossoff was ailing from an addiction to Mandrax (Quaalude) and features a different line up from previous albums.
Free reunited the following year, releasing Free at Last in June 1972 which reached the top ten of the UK Albums Chart. [3] In early 1973 the band released Heartbreaker, which was recorded primarily by Rodgers and Kirke due to Fraser's departure and Kossoff's drug problems. [1]
Heartbreaker sessions "Heartbreaker" 1973 Heartbreaker: Rodgers "Heavy Load" 1970 Fire and Water: Rodgers/Fraser "Honky Tonk Women" 1972 Bonus track Jagger/Richards: Free at Last sessions "I'll Be Creepin'" 1969 Free: Rodgers/Fraser "I'm a Mover" 1968 Tons of Sobs: Rodgers/Fraser "Just for the Box" 1971 The Free Story: Kossoff
Free recorded one more album, Heartbreaker, before disbanding in 1973; Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke went on to co-form the more successful rock supergroup Bad Company. [8] Paul Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler in 1973, but died from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 25 in 1976. [9] Andy Fraser died on 16 March 2015 at 62. [10] [11]
The single was re-released in 1985 and reached number 96 in the UK Singles Chart. The song is featured on the band's sixth and final studio album, Heartbreaker. It was their final hit single before the group disbanded in 1973, with Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke going on to form Bad Company. Matthew Greenwald of AllMusic said:
It should only contain pages that are Paul Kossoff albums or lists of Paul Kossoff albums, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Paul Kossoff albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
The album covers the entire studio album collection of Free from their debut album Tons of Sobs through to their final studio album Heartbreaker and includes their biggest hit single "All Right Now". It also has two non-Free tracks - Just For The Box , from the album Kossoff Kirke Tetsu Rabbit, and the song Lady , from Rodgers' post-Free group ...
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