This so-called "superstar pricing" was a dollar more than the usual list price of $8.98. MCA wanted to release the record at the list price of $9.98. breakthrough singles.Īlthough he was already extremely successful, Petty again ran into record company trouble when he and the Heartbreakers prepared to release Hard Promises (1981), the follow-up album to Damn the Torpedoes. It included " Don't Do Me Like That" (#10 U.S., the group's first Top Ten single) and " Refugee" (#15 U.S.), their U.S. In 1979, after their legal dispute was settled, the Heartbreakers released their third album Damn the Torpedoes through MCA's Backstreet label. Petty refused to be transferred to another record label and held fast to his principles, which led to his filing for bankruptcy as a tactic against MCA. In 1979, the band was dragged into a legal dispute when ABC Records, Shelter's distributor, was sold to MCA Records. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' second album, You're Gonna Get It! (1978), was their first gold record, and featured the singles " I Need to Know" and " Listen To Her Heart". " American Girl" was covered in 1977 by Roger McGuinn on his " Thunderbyrd" LP. and became a Top 40 hit in 1978, after word filtered back of the band's massive success in Britain, and perhaps more importantly after it featured on the extremely popular soundtrack to the 1978 film, FM. Wow, we had never seen anything like that, man." "Breakdown" was re-released in the U.S. in 1976, Petty states, "The audience just jumped up and charged the stage and were boogieing their brains out. Recalling the band's first gig in the U.K.
Early singles included " Breakdown" and " American Girl". playing " Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" on Top of the Pops. Initially, the Heartbreakers did not gain much traction in the U.S., although they achieved success in the U.K. The Heartbreakers began their recording career with a self-titled album, released through the Shelter label. In 1976, Petty, with himself as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, formed "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers" with Mike Campbell on lead guitar, Benmont Tench on keyboards, Stan Lynch on drums and Ron Blair on bass. They released one single, "Depot Street", in 1975, which failed to chart the group consequently disbanded. In 1974, Mudcrutch signed with Shelter Records and re-located to Los Angeles, California. Petty's early bands included the Sundowners, the Epics, and Mudcrutch. From left: Mike Campbell, Ron Blair, Tom Petty, Stan Lynch, and Benmont Tench In these releases, some members of the band contributed as collaborators, producing and performing as studio musicians.
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Although most of their material was produced and performed under the name "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers", Petty released three solo albums, the most successful of which was Full Moon Fever (1989). The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, their first year of eligibility. Their final studio album, Hypnotic Eye, was released in 2014. While the heartland rock movement waned in the 1990s, the band remained active and popular, touring regularly until Petty's death in 2017, after which the Heartbreakers disbanded. The band's music was characterized as both Southern rock and heartland rock, cited alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and John Mellencamp as progenitors of that genre that arose in the late 1970s and 1980s. The band had a long string of hit singles including " Breakdown", " American Girl", " Refugee", " The Waiting", " Learning to Fly", and " Mary Jane's Last Dance", among many others, that stretched over several decades of work. Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epstein's death. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch on drums. In 1991, Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist-mostly on rhythm guitar and second keyboard. His replacement, Howie Epstein, stayed with the band for the next two decades. In 1982, Blair, weary of the touring lifestyle, departed the band. Formed in 1976, the band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm guitarist Tom Petty, lead guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer Stan Lynch and bassist Ron Blair. This episode is brought to you by Fretboard Biology - the online guitar college created by Joe Elliott, ex head of guitar at GIT and McNally Smith Music College.Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida.
This episode was first published in December 2020.
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The long time Heartbreaker joins us to talk about a remarkable career working as 'co-captain' with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, filling in for Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac and stepping out front and center in his long term project, The Dirty Knobs.
Mike Campbell is responsible for crafting some of the most memorable guitar parts in rock music with Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley and others.