Heartbreaker (Free album)

Heartbreaker
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1973
August 1977 (reissue)
February 2002 (reissue)
RecordedOctober – November 1972
StudioIsland (London)
GenreBlues rock
Length35:45
LabelIsland
ProducerFree and Andy Johns
Free chronology
Free at Last
(1972)
Heartbreaker
(1973)
The Free Story
(1973)
Singles from Heartbreaker
  1. "Wishing Well"
    Released: 8 December 1972

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. Tetsu Yamauchi was brought in to replace Fraser, while John "Rabbit" Bundrick became the band's keyboard player to compensate for the increasingly unreliable Kossoff (singer Paul Rodgers played keyboards on the previous album 1972 Free at Last). Both Yamauchi and Bundrick had played with Kossoff and drummer Simon Kirke on the album Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu & Rabbit during that period in late 1971 when Free had broken up for the first time. Also, several other musicians were used on the album. The album was co-produced by Andy Johns as well as Free themselves.