Heartbreaker [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

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Product Details

• Audio CD (February 11, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Island UK
• ASIN: B00005V1AX
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,695 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wishing Well

2. Come Together In The Morning

3. Travellin' In Style

4. Heartbreaker

5. Muddy Water

6. Common Mortal Man

7. Easy On My Soul

8. Seven Angels

9. Wishing Well (US Mix)

10. Let Me Show You (Single 'B' Side)

11. Muddy Water (Alternative Vocal)

12. Hand Me Down/Turn Me Round (Prospective Album Track)

13. Heartbreaker (Rehearsal Version)

14. Easy On My Soul (Rehearsal Version)

Editorial Reviews

UK remastered reissue of 1973 album includes six bonus tracks, 'Wishing Well' (U.S. mix). 'Let Me Show You' (B-side), 'Muddy Water' (alternative vocal), 'Hand Me Down/Turn Me Round' (prospective album track), 'Heartbreaker' (rehearsal version) & 'Easy On My Soul' (rehearsal version). 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking, January 2, 2003

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William Wood (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heartbreaker (Audio CD)

My favourite Free album now sounds even better thanks to a remastering that let's the music shine. After the poor "Free at Last" ( recorded just before the band split for the first time) who would have expected an album as good as this?( Especially without the bass playing and songwriting of Andy Fraser who it seems could not reconcile himself to work with Paul Rodgers again).
The album has it's fair share of bluesy rockers( "Wishing Well" ,"Heartbreaker" and perhaps drummer Simon Kirke's finest performance in "Seven Angels") but it is the slower , more soulful numbers that really make this album special. John Bundrick's two songs "Common mortal man" and Muddy Water" are both suberb and have had me searching for a copy of his solo album (Broken Arrows) for a long time. His keyboard work throughout is polished and always sympathetic to the tunes and what the other musicians are playing. He is clearly a powerful addition to the band. The vocals of Paul Rogers are at times quite stunning in the emotion they are able to convey,and on "come together in the morning" he and guitarist Paul Kossof are captured at an absolute peak ( just listen to the slow fade out and then fade in at the end of the tune-suberb!). Paul Rodgers also pens all the other tunes on the disc and has never written a better bunch of songs ,even the somewhat slight "Easy on my soul" is rendered as a classic by these guys.
In all it is sad that this was the end of a band that had so much potential, but at least we have "Heartbreaker " to remind us of what was.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost as good as I had dared hope -- this is the Remaster, March 2, 2002

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Gavin Wilson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heartbreaker (Audio CD)

It took me about six years to realise what a magnificent album this is -- it was 1979; I was an Oxford student, slightly drunk and mourning a relationship that had just ended -- but it has remained one of my Top 20 favourites ever since. Paul Kossoff's guitar solos on 'Come Together in the Morning' are still some of the most ethereal, spine-tingling elements to emerge from the whole 60s/70s era.

I have had this album on cassette and on unremastered CD. It's always been a notoriously murky mix -- but on a track like 'Wishing Well' that's how it should be. The great news is that this remaster rescues many instruments from the dense wall of sound of the original, particularly the percussion and acoustic guitar. Forget the bonus tracks -- e.g. the timbales on the US mix of 'Wishing Well' -- they are interesting once, but you won't want to remember this classic album for the tinny piano doodlings of the rehearsal versions.

The informative sleeve notes are by Britain's Phil Sutcliffe, the CD itself now resembles the original LP centre label.

In the UK this will rightly become the standard version of HEARTBREAKER, and is priced to replace the AAD version once stocks run out. In the US, we may have to continue buying on import. Very, very strongly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my maker, January 23, 2006

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Terry Knighton "TERRY - THE -K" (ROCKY FACE GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heartbreaker (Audio CD)

THIS IS TRULY A CLASSIC ALBUM THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE WITHOUT.EVERY SONG ON THE CD IS EXCEPTIONAL AND IT IS THE GREATEST SWAN SONG I HAVE HEARD TO-DATE. FREE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST BAND OF THEIR ERA AND PAUL RODGERS HAS A VOICE THAT IS AMAZING.PAUL KOSOFF'S GUITAR WORK IS TRULY SOME OF THE MOST TALENTED GUTIAR AROUND AND HE WAS HIGHLY UNDERRATED . HIS PRESENTATION ON THIS ALBUM EXCEEDS ANY OF HIS PREVIOUS WORK AND RIP BROTHER I KNOW YOU ARE ROCKING AND PLAYING WITH THE GREAT ONE HIMSELF -MY MAKER MUST HAVE BEEN A HARD HEARTBREAKER-