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• Blues rockWEB, Led Zeppelin Biography, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, their blues-rock approach on such tracks as "Whole Lotta Love," "Heartbreaker" and "Ramble On.",weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160629100259weblink">weblink 29 June 2016, 17 February 2014,weblink BOOK, Nigel, Williamson, Nigel Williamson, The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin, 2007, 164, 978-1-8435-3841-7, Rough Guides, Rough Guides UK,weblink registration,
• hard rockBOOK, Rikky, Rooksby, Riffs: How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs Revised and Updated Edition, 2010, 1st, 81, Hal Leonard Corporation, Backbeat Books, 978-1-4768-5547-9,weblink

LED ZEPPELIN II> TYPE = ALBUM NOTESLED ZEPPELIN> LOCATION = NEW YORK CITYATLANTIC RECORDS> ID = SD 8236, Inside cover, Atlantic Records>Atlantic| writer =

• John Bonham
• John Paul Jones
• Jimmy Page
• Robert Plant| producer = Jimmy Page

}}"Heartbreaker" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1969 album, Led Zeppelin II. It was credited to all four members of the band, recorded at A&R Recording and Atlantic Studios in New York City during the band's second concert tour of North America, and engineered by Eddie Kramer.MAGAZINE, Dave, Lewis, Led Zeppelin: The Story Behind Led Zeppelin II, Classic Rock (magazine), Classic Rock, 6 December 2016, 15 June 2017,weblink MAGAZINE, 100 Greatest Guitar Solos: No. 16 "Heartbreaker" (Jimmy Page), 21 October 2008, 15 June 2017, Guitar World,weblink "Heartbreaker" opens the second side of the album and features a guitar riff by Jimmy Page. It also includes a spontaneous unaccompanied solo, using a pull-off technique, which was voted the 16th-greatest guitar solo of all time by Guitar World magazine. "Heartbreaker" was ranked number 320 in 2004 by Rolling Stone magazine, in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,MAGAZINE, The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (1-500), Rolling Stone,weblink August 20, 2006, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060820114526weblink">weblink and number 328 in 2010.MAGAZINE, 328. Led Zeppelin, 'Heartbreaker', Rolling Stone, 7 April 2011, 4 October 2017,weblink

Recording

In a 1998 interview with Guitar World, Page commented that the guitar solo was recorded in a different studio, thereby giving a different sound than the rest of the song.MAGAZINE, Brad, Tolinski, Greg, Di Bendetto, Guitar World, Light and Shade, January 1998, He added that this was the first recorded instance of his Gibson Les Paul/Marshall Stack combination. Brett Milano of uDiscover Music rated the guitar solo as one of the 100 all-time greatest.WEB, Brett, Milano, The Best Guitar Solos: 100 Hair-Raising Moments, uDiscover Music, 11 September 2020, 15 September 2020,weblink

Personnel

According to Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin:{{sfn|Guesdon|Margotin|2018|p=126}}

• Robert Plant – vocals
• Jimmy Page – guitars
• John Paul Jones – bass
• John Bohnam – drums

Influence

"Heartbreaker" is one of the songs featured in Nick Hornby's book 31 Songs. Record producer Rick Rubin has remarked, "One of the greatest riffs in rock. It starts, and it's like they don't really know where the 'one' is. Magical in its awkwardness."MAGAZINE, Fifty Artists Pick Their Personal Top 10s – Rick Rubin: Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stone,weblink 11 December 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101211051803weblink">weblink Eddie Van Halen once claimed the "Heartbreaker" solo as the inspiration behind his adoption of the tapping technique he later popularized. In one review with Guitar World, he said:... pull off. I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around? I just kind of took it and ran with it.MAGAZINE, Joe, Bosso, Van Halen: VH1, 20 November 2008, Guitar World,weblink dead, 15 January 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110115053118weblink">weblink }}Steve Vai has also commented about it in a September 1998 Guitar World interview: "This one [Heartbreaker] had the biggest impact on me as a youth. It was defiant, bold, and edgier than hell. It really is the definitive rock guitar solo."BOOK, Jeff, Kitts, Brad, Tolinski, 2002, Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time!, Hal Leonard Corporation, 189, 978-0-6340-4619-3,weblink

See also

• {{slink|List of cover versions of Led Zeppelin songsHeartbreaker}}

References

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Bibliography

• BOOK, Jean-Michel, Guesdon, Philippe, Margotin, 2018, Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, Running Press, 978-0-316-448-67-3,

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