![]() It cemented Petty’s status as one of America’s best rock songwriters, each subsequent album launching hit singles. It went to number two on Billboard, and sold three million copies. The band, and Petty, would become commercial juggernauts and superstars with 1979’s third album Damn the Torpedoes, which anyone with parents born between 19 can tell you was a standard issue album in everyone’s record collection. “American Girl” eventually became the hit from the album-it is playing on FM radio, somewhere, right now-but listening to the debut now, it’s hard to see how an album with something as sultry and groovy as “Breakdown” could end up racked alongside “new wave.” His debut album, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, came out in 1976, and was a minor hit in the U.K., where he was lumped in with new wave bands. Petty dropped out of school at 17 and joined Mudcrutch- a band that he’d reform in the 2000s-before a broken up and reconstituted lineup would join a now-solo Petty as the Heartbreakers. Rock stardom seemed like the least possible outcome for him though kids from Gainesville, Florida, don’t end up selling out arenas and selling millions of records. ![]() Petty, like a lot of Baby Boomers, got into rock music after seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. He was pronounced dead late on October 2, a week to the day after the last Heartbreakers show. He was brought to a hospital, and when efforts to revive him failed, taken off life support. "I don't want to spend my life on the road." On Sunday night, six days after that performance, Tom Petty was found unresponsive in his Malibu home with cardiac arrest. "We're all on the backside of our sixties," Petty told Rolling Stone late last year. tour drawing to a close more than 40 years of being one of the most consistently great rock bands on earth. See below or for details.On September 25, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the last date of what they were calling their “Last Big One,” a final full U.S. The band will also headline London’s Hyde Park as part of Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time with very special guests Stevie Nicks, The Lumineers, Ward Thomas, The Head and The Heart, Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown and The Shelters among others-this will be their only European performance of 2017. The tour features support from Joe Walsh as well as Chris Stapleton, Peter Wolf and The Lumineers on select dates this summer. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are on tour now with shows sold out across North America-more to be added soon. UMe will also be releasing Pack Up The Plantation Live! The albums will be individually available on 180g black vinyl with the original LP artwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each album* has been remastered for this release and seven of the albums-Damn the Torpedoes, Full Moon Fever, Hard Promises, Into The Great Wide Open, Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough), Long After Dark and Southern Accents-are included in the The Complete Studio Albums Volume 1 box set, released last year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut. On June 2, UMe will release eight individual albums from their Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers catalog as stand-alone vinyl titles. ![]()
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