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Free: Heartbreaker

Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973

FREE IS AN ENGLISH quartet that toured with Blind Faith, had a big hit single, was hailed by the British press as the new Rolling Stones, and disbanded, all before its members had left their teens. That's not the end of the story: Free reunited after a year's time, made a comeback album, then lost two of its four members all over again. Now a half-old, half-new Free has made an album, Heartbreaker, and is currently embarked on an American tour to get American audiences as interested in them as the English ones are.

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