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Listen: Ben Harper Gives Away 'Rock N' Roll is Free'

Download the first single from the singer's new album 'Give Till It's Gone'

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March 29, 2011 1:45 PM ET
Listen: Ben Harper Gives Away 'Rock N' Roll is Free'

Ben Harper is taking the title of his new single "Rock N' Roll Is Free" very literally by giving the track away for a limited time. The sunny, upbeat rocker is the first taste from his new album Give Till It's Gone, which will hit stores on May 17th, but for now the song is, as Harper sings, "free if you want it."


 

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