Free - Heartbreaker RARE 

Never knew Paul Rogers could play guitar that well.

Rodgers one of the greatest voices in bluesy rock ever.

I can’t believe Rodgers can play guitar that good and sing at the same time!!! Such an amazing musician…!!!

Wonderful historically important footage. A millions thanks to whoever saved it and whoever made it available🙂👍♥️♥️🙂👍

Thanks for posting this , PR shows top form , 👌 I love Paul Kossoffs playing still , guitar 🎸 fills by Paul Rogers superb here 😊

Paul Rodgers is doing an Amazing job here keeping Free alive despite the failing health of their fellow band mate kossoff. They Sure dont make music like this anymore...

Great profissionalism! Paul Rodgers plays guitars and sing, covering the gap of Paul Kossof departure! Superb!

free has got to be my all time favourite band, they were just amazing, they dont make music like this anymore and of course theres no-one can sing like paul!!!

Paul is a damned fine guitarist.

Incredible video! Paul Rodgers vocal range is amazing and it still is today! Love Paul Rodgers and Free!

One of my favourite Free songs. No Koss or Frazier but still a bloody classic! They were a trully awsome band. Their music has a HUGE influence on me and my music. I think I had the Free story on my turn table for about 3 months running without removing it. Every morning while getting ready for work and last thing at night to put me to sleep I listened to it.

This Paul Rogers kid was pretty good. I hope he made it... ;)

Rodgers doing a great job playing that riff and singing at the same time

Kossoff and Fraser are gods! I was born in 1980 and a mere scratch in my dads nuts when they did the Isle Of Wight festival... Fraser was just 16yrs old!!!! Have loved Free since I was 13yrs old. Both my idols! Real passion in their music. "Love you so", "wishing well", "the hunter", "my brother jake"... some of my favs. They don't make true soul guitarists like these guys anymore - nearest I have found is Chris Cornell!

Loved Free better than the Stones anytime...

I'm thankful and grateful for this wonderful footage - as LV commented earlier, historically important. This video shows the passion, the heart and the soul with which the great rock bands of the day played.

Thanks for that. Fantastic. There's a massive hole left by Kossoff on that track, but Rabbit does a great job on keyboards. Paul Rodgers was (and still is) so far ahead of the game - I've never heard another singer with such a great voice who uses it to such effect. I reckon it's just soul. If anyone knows of one, my cd collection could do with more variety!

A fantastic find. Thanks for sharing, I've not seen it before :)

Damn Rodgers aint bad on guitar.

Really rare footage.. Without Koss & Andy but still fantastic.. Paul and Simon kept the group alive for a while,.. If these guys stayed together for a few more years Free would be as famous as R.Stones, L.Zeppelin etc. One of the gr8st British groups ever for me anyways.. THANK U VERY MUCH 4 the upload, was a big surprise 4 me.. Thanks 👍

Rodgers voice makes me want to get down on my knees and thank the gods I am a Free-fan.

Total love and respect for Dewar (RIP) and Trower. I have everything those two did together as well as everything Rodgers/Koss ever did. They were both equally awesome. I never tire of hearing either.

All I have to say is Free were better than the Rolling Stones. And how good did Paul pull off the guitar parts??? Very very cool!!!

Paul Rodgers is fantasic.

love the harsh over-exposures, faded colors and sepia tones of 1972 16mm film stock.

Whoa! Paul Rodgers......superb......

Thank you for letting us see this rare footage . I love Free a d Bad Company.

AWESOME FOOTAGE ! got me thinking somebody somewhere has the rest of this concert .

@flyvibe71 This concert was in Japan, in a Tokyo stadium in July 1972. Free were the support group for Emerson, Lake and Palmer in their Japanese tour in 1972, also available in RU-vid

I love the closeup on the keyboard player during Paul's guitar solo!!

What a life Paul had, always in great bands, great jams

Amazing. Great. Doesn't matter about the poor sound quality. I love it. Best thing on RU-vid??? Thanks for thios.

Thanks for posting this. Heartbreaker is one of my favorite Free songs. You made my day.

Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Maybe Free's 1971 Sydney concert footage will be found and posted on U-Tube one day. Who knows?

Great song, just love Rodgers' vocals, sharp yet smooth, perfect pitch. One of my favourite Free/ Bad Company songs, right up there with Little Miss Fortune. Thanks for posting this.

And Purple must've listened to Free, cause he said somewhere that he came up with mistreated from this riff

This is just great. Beast band ever. Thanks for posting. Wish I was back in the early 70s

The use of organs and synths in a band is generally awesome! This is my first hearing of this and I like it! Thanks acerb for sharing!

@papmjny Yes, Blackmore said in an interview long time ago that Mistreated was based in Heartbreaker's riff

Awesome. Love the title track. Wish I would have actually been there. Heartbreaker is a underrated album.

Thanks for the upload! I’m working on playing and singing at the same time... it hard to lock in the pocket. Paul’s got it down!

Thanks for posting this. On the vinyl edition of "The Free Story" the last track was a superb live version of Heartbreaker but the CD misses it out. It's nice to hear another live version 'cause the studio cut doesn't have the same energy.

Holy fuck Rodgers can play a mean lead guitar....I knew he was a multi instrumentalist but his vibrato is brilliant not on kossoffs level but still...hard riff to sing and play that too

Poor quality the film may be but it is good to get a chance to see the line up with Paul Rodgers playing guitar and Tetsu and Rabbit in the band.Paul with a guitar rather than having the freedom to ramble up to the mike looks odd but he can certainly play a bit!

I was there

)O( This man has to be one of THEE Best Rock Vocalist's ive ever fuckin heard!!

Thank you for these uploads. This is gold!

@flyvibe71 Free played only two concerts in Japan in 1972 (Korakuen baseball stadium in Tokyo, July 22 1972, demolished in 1988 and Koshien baseball stadium in Osaka, July 24, 1972).

@AZRacer2000 No one is more or less in Free than any other....and that is what made them so remarkable...however...when faced with the problems that they had to surmount....this incarnation, albeit missing Koss...and the Heartbreaker LP that they were touring behind....was certainly worthy of it's own merit. Bundrick is a GENIUS keyboardist...probably the best B-3 player alive. The heart and soul of Free truly is Simon Kirke! Completely overlooked and underloved!

Actually, I didn't know that Paul Rogers was such a good lead guitarist. He played it as well as Kossoff would have pretty much... wow, what a guy, I'm impressed. Nearly as good as me... ha ha... just kidding... I'm heaps better... just kidding again... :o) Thanks for posting this.. loved it!

had the pleasure of being kissed (on the cheek) by this wonderful man at glasgow barrowlands

Amazing video. Amazing performance. Saw Free live in 1972 at Lancaster University, Now my son is into them - he's 15

Check out RABBIT on keys man! I just had a great time watching him ...... He gives the essence of the entire decade of FREE love in a few seconds. Paul Rodgers , when will I get my duet????

Rare clip indeed,thanks for posting the great Free...-1

i whole-heartedly agree....thatz why im STUCK on FREE and CREAM.....the best raw , soulful , deep , real music ive EVER heard ....and seven great musicians playing the music ...it simply doesnt get any BETTER than CREAM and FREE

i just keep on searching for FREE ...am really digging them more and more and MORE .....

quality is rather good. This is cool classic stuff, thanks for sharing! Janis, Singapore

Wow. I have a huge collection of Paul Rodger concert footage and this is the first time I have ever heard an organ in the band!

I agree. Rock music, like all art, should be a personal thing, and few lived that idea more than this band. Those stares from the cover of Fire & Water which seemed to say - 'This is great, so just like it or lump it'. Well, I've been loving it for 30+ years, and those who 'lumped' it or missed it I just think 'bad luck!'. Thanks Frozenfish - Heartbreaker is a rarity (even dropped off Free Story on CD), and is yet another Free classic.

I agree, I love this song. Never tire of it. One of their greatist!Nice to see PR on lead.Plays well.

Thks for this....This was when Music was real before Lipsynking & 1 hit Wonders!!!!!!

Simply fantastic. Paul R is the ace

Sincerely.;is the first time I have see an organ in the band.. Thank Acerb for send me

thanks for posting, I have a NTSC tape but cant play it! Missing live FREE video!

Has Stood the test of time,and will always amazing

I saw Tetsu with Faces on their farewell tour in '75. Didn't know he played with Free also. (I might have known in the 70's, from reading rock music mags, but I don't know NOW, lol

Rodgers managing a perfectly decent guitar solo. Great organ by Rabbit too.

Main inspiration for Chris Cornell

I always wonder what goes on in Rabbit's head during his solo. He must heve felt great! Too bad Kossoff had to leave the band, but I've always liked the Heartbreaker album and this footage is a real gem. Rodgers' voice sounds great and he can play a mean guitar!

I wouldn't argue Jagger's shortcomings...Rodgers is THE VOICE.

Rogers' guitar work ain't too shabby. You can tell Kossoff's style has rubbed off a bit on Rogers' approach to soloing.

Wow rare indeed. Thanks for the post.

FREE is een geniale band. Fantastische blues-rock. Ik ken geen slecht nummer van hen. Aanrader dus voor alle blues of classic rock liefhebbers.

Even with Rodgers playing guitar and singing this is still a great band. Not sure the audience in Japan are digging it. Kossoff RIP

*Huge props to Paul Rogers without and Andy Fraser and Paul Koseff and doing this tune justice!!*

Absolutely fabulous 👌 👏 👍

J'ADORE. Berceau de mon enfance.

I agree jimmy-it is amazing.Although i count all right now as my favorite free or anyone else-there was nothing like it when it came out.

Mrber44 Kossoff wasn't there. Sadly he was on the drug ridden way to his early passing in March 76. RIP Koss

Now that it's on You Tube it is no longer "Rare". Great stuff though. I love the raw energy missing from todays music.

Free was such an amazing band and Paul Kossoff was such an amazing guitarist there albums were classic Tons of Sobs,Highway,Fire and Water,Heartbreaker,Live,Best of,Free at Last and Andy Frazier at one point wanted to leave the.band and retire but didn’t because he wanted to make Paul happy and to see him smile again he stayed in the band just for Paul according to an interview and Paul formed his own band Backstreet Crawlers and had several albums that were excellent AC/DC cancelled a tour because Backstreet Crawler was opening for AC/DC because of Paul’s death happened and on the album Free at Last you could tell the band was breaking up when you heard the song Goodbye

Is that Tetsu on Bass? Sounds really good.

He plays guitar great Damn heroin ruined poor Paul i got too see Free long time ago. That was a great sounding BadAss Group. Oh yeah The Show Must Go On.

Love that big drooling riff. Classic. Free were so damn good. Even though Koss and Fraser were missing at this point, Rodgers shows us once again how it's done. The voice...

Paul is actually not too bad of a guitar player. Missin some major koss and Fraser though

Jupp, he sure is!! God I love this band. Too bad I was born in -77 instead of -57. Would give my left arm to see em live. :)

Jee-zus they were f*ckin monsters. Saw Paul Rogers last night on his solo tour - the greatest rock singer ever, Goddamnit.

Hey, singers. You know how to do it? Go to a concert and sing like this. Divine.

great video!

They put on the 1999 compilation cd "Alright Now" last track. I missed it too! But have a copy now. I think Rodgers was doing a lot of the Guitar/writing about this time, there is distinct lack of Kossoff.

Please search for Baleful Creed Heartbreaker Interested to hear your views on this version (based on the Goatsnake version of this Free classic, we don't tune as low as Goatsnake though!). It was our first time playing it out live - not a great sound as its from an audience camera.

testu and rabbit great

Paul Rodgers tried harder to keep Free together then any other person of his talent would have done.

Wow great performance! 5*****

Land of the Free.

Classic stuff !! Thanks

Weird without Koss, but very interesting hearing Rodgers tackle the lead guitar duties.

Is that Rabbit and Tetsu? On that tour? What happened to Kossof and Kirk? Still cool track . Many thx for posting. Love this group!

By a sound and vibe, this is much closer to what Bad Comp. will become then what Free actually was. And yeah..Rodgers is good guitar player.

This and more footage is available on the Free Story DVD. If you can't source let me know and I will help out.