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"Free Money"
Song by Patti Smith
from the album Horses
ReleasedDecember 13, 1975 (1975-12-13)
StudioElectric Lady
GenreProto-punk[1]
Length3:52
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)John Cale
Horses track listing
8 tracks
Side one
  1. "Gloria: In Excelsis Deo / Gloria"
  2. "Redondo Beach"
  3. "Birdland"
  4. "Free Money"
Disc two
  1. "Kimberly"
  2. "Break It Up"
  3. "Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (De)"
  4. "Elegie"

"Free Money" is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, and first released on Smith's 1975 album Horses. In 1977 Sammy Hagar covered the song on his eponymous album. Also covered by Penetration on their album Moving Targets and later by Cell as a B-side.

Notes

  1. ^ Terich, Jeff; Pearson, Paul; Bossenger, A.T. (November 5, 2015). "10 Essential Proto-punk tracks". Treble. Retrieved November 9, 2019.



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