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R.I.P TOM PETTY

Let the music do the talking. RIP Tom. And peace to America and my friends in las Vegas :(

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Aug

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Learn To Fly Into The Great Wide Open 25 Years Ago

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

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Dallas, TX - August 2, 2016. North American syndicated Rock radio show and website InTheStudio with Redbeard: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands celebrates the 25th anniversary of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ hit album Into The Great Wide Open.

Tom Petty was on a huge roll in August of 1991. He had hit paid dirt with his first solo album, 1989’s Full Moon Fever. He had become a member of the Traveling Wilburys supergroup with bandmates Jeff Lynne of ELO, Beatle George Harrison and legends Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan. It was following these two multiplatinum endeavors that Tom Petty reunited with the Heartbreakers to record Into The Great Wide Open.

The album came at a time when Petty could reflect. He had recently turned 40, chuckling, “I’ll probably look back at this as some kind of mid-life crisis album.” It was also a period, pre-911 but post first Gulf War, which disturbed long-dormant feelings in Tom as well as many others who came of age during the nation’s lengthy, deadly, ill-advised Viet Nam War. With those factors in place, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers produced a thought -provoking album that included two timeless classics, “Learning to Fly” and “Into the Great Wide Open”. Tom Petty reveals to InTheStudio host Redbeard how the songwriting process unfolds for him.

“I don’t think all of these grand thoughts while I’m writing the songs. I’m hit with some inspiration of some kind and I’m just trying to finish it off and exorcise it from my system... It still fascinates me that you can pick up the guitar and sit for a few hours and find something that you never knew. That you didn’t know existed. That’s the beauty of music. It’s always something you can count on.” - Tom Petty

Tom Petty ‘Into The Great Wide Open’ /InTheStudio interview is available now to STREAM at: “http://www.inthestudio.net/redbeards-blog/tom-petty-heartbreakers-wide-open/”

Direct Link to InTheStudio broadcast affiliate radio station list: “http://www.inthestudio.net/radio-stations/ “www.inthestudio.net/radio-stations”
Direct Link to Tom Petty website: “http://www.tompetty.com”
Direct Link to InTheStudio website: “http://www.inthestudio.net”

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