{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Verifiability|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Freeze | type = studio | artist = [[Herman Brood|Herman Brood & His Wild Romance]] | cover = brood freeze.jpg | alt = | released = {{start-date|1989}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = Friends Studio, Amsterdam | genre = [[Rock and roll]], [[blues]] | length = | label = [[CBS]] | producer = The Wild Romance | prev_title = [[Hooks (album)|Hooks]] | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = Live | next_year = 1992 }}

'''''Freeze''''' is the tenth studio album by Dutch [[rock and roll]] and [[blues]] group [[Herman Brood|Herman Brood & His Wild Romance]]. The album reached No. 63 on the Dutch album chart on 3 November 1990, and stayed on the chart for 5 weeks.<ref name="discografie">{{cite web |last= |first= |author-link= |title=Herman Brood & His Wild Romance: Discografie |publisher=Muziek Centrum Nederland |date= |url=http://www.popinstituut.nl/Encyclopedia/Discography.aspx?id=806&name=Herman+Brood+%26+His+Wild+Romance |format= |doi= |accessdate=2009-04-12 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Brood, who had just won the 1989 [[Popprijs]], one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, recorded ''Freeze'' with the help of [[Clarence Clemons]] of the [[E Street Band]] and [[Tejano music|Tejano]] [[accordion]] player [[Flaco Jiménez]]. Lack of success for this album leads Brood to stop touring.<ref>{{cite web| last =| first =| author-link =| title =Herman Brood & His Wild Romance: Biografie| publisher =Muziek Centrum Nederland| date =| url =http://www.popinstituut.nl/Encyclopedia/Biography.aspx?id=806&name=Herman+Brood+%26+His+Wild+Romance| format =| doi =| accessdate =2009-04-17}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Track listing== {{tracklist | writing_credits = | lyrics_credits = | music_credits = | title1 = Blue Ice Moon | writer1 = Brood, Roy Bakker | length1 = 3:31 | title2 = Crackin' Up | writer2 = Brood, David Hollestelle Jr. | length2 = 4:26 | title3 = The Talkin' | writer3 = Brood | length3 = 3:59 | title4 = Break Away | writer4 = Brood, David Hollestelle Jr. | length4 = 4:29 | title5 = Lie & Cheat | writer5 = Brood | length5 = 2:17 | title6 = Boys in Black | writer6 = Brood, Roy Bakker, David Hollestelle Jr., Ivo Severijns | length6 = 1:02 | title7 = Beefin' It Up | writer7 = Brood, Ivo Severijns | length7 = 4:21 | title8 = Cat Smoke | writer8 = David Hollestelle Jr. | length8 = 2:13 | title9 = Legal in Amsterdam | writer9 = Brood, David Hollestelle Jr. | length9 = 4:05 | title10 = Johnny | writer10 = Brood | length10 = 1:19 | title11 = He'll Have to Go | writer11 = Brood | length11 = 1:01 | title12 = Cripple (Without You) | writer12 = Brood, David Hollestelle Jr. | length12 = 2:49 | title13 = On Top of You | writer13 = Brood, David Hollestelle Jr. | length13 = 2:27 | title14 = Forever | writer14 = Erik Walet, Mads Nordheim | length14 = 2:07 | title15 = [[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]] | writer15 = [[Richard Rodgers]], [[Lorenz Hart]] | length15 = 1:00 | title16 = It Ain't the Gun | writer16 = Brood, David Hollestelle Jr. | length16 = 5:09 }}

==Personnel== ;Herman Brood and his Wild Romance *Herman Brood – piano, keyboards, vocals *Roy Bakker – drums *Ivo Severijns – bass *David Hollestelle Jr. – guitar with: *[[Clarence Clemons]] – saxophone *[[Flaco Jiménez]] – [[accordion]] *The Bombita's (Lies Schilp, Inge Bonthond, Robbie Schmitz, Perla den Boer) – backing vocals ;Technical *Koos van Dijk – executive producer *John Tilly – engineer *Herman Brood – design *Alex de Groot – photography

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