It opens the second side of Led Zeppelin II and features a distorted, "swaggering" guitar riff by Jimmy Page.

Two minutes into the track, Page performs a spontaneous, unaccompanied 46-second guitar solo that utilizes the pull-off technique.

"[13] Eddie Van Halen once claimed the "Heartbreaker" solo as the inspiration behind his adoption of the tapping technique he later popularized.

[8] In one review with Guitar World, he said: "I think I got the idea of tapping watching Jimmy Page do his "Heartbreaker" solo back in 1971.

[14] 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.