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Free Heartbreaker
1973 Vinyl Los Angeles Pressing
Classic Rock
Blues Rock

Main image
Island Records
bass, percussion Tetsu Yamauchi
design [cover] John Glover
design [cover], photography by Richard Polak
drums, percussion, backing vocals Simon Kirke
engineer Richard Digby Smith
engineer [assistant] Bill Price
engineer [assistant] Howard Kilgour
engineer [assistant] Phil Bush
engineer [assistant] Rhett Davies
engineer [assistant] Richard Kaplan
graphics CCS
tracks a2 to a4, b2, b4 guitar Paul Kossoff
lead vocals, guitar [electric & acoustic] Paul Rodgers
mastered by Lee Hulko
piano [electric & acoustic], organ, backing vocals, glockenspiel John "Rabbit" Bundrick
producer Free
producer, remix Andy Johns
Phonographic Copyright (p) Island Records Ltd.
Pressed By Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Recorded At Island Studios
Early Los Angeles pressing (✲ stamped in runouts)
May have come with light blue Island company inner sleeve.

Recorded at Island Studios, London, England October and November 1972

Runout strings are etched with sᴛᴇʀʟɪɴɢ and ✲ stamped.
Pressing Plant ID: ✲ (Runouts, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: SW1-9324 (A Side Label)
Matrix / Runout: SW2-9324 (B Side Label)
Matrix / Runout: SW-1-9324 Z6 LH ✲ Sterling (A Side Etched, Variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: SW-2-9324 Z6 LH ✲ Sterling (B Side Etched, Variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: SW-1-9324 Z5 3 LH 2 ✲ STERLING (A Side Etched, Variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: SW-2-9324 Z5+ 1 LH2 ✲ STERLING (B Side Etched, Variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: SW-1-9324 Z6· 1 ✲ STERLING LH 3 (A Side Etched, Variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: SW-2-9324 Z6· 1 ✲ STERLING LH 3 (B Side Etched, Variant 3)



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