19 October 2024

Legendary rockers TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS released their
3rd LP DAMN THE TORPEDOES this day 45 years ago, on 19 October 1979.

Their first hit album. It peaked at #2 in the US, kept from
the top seat by Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It went triple platinum.

Pitchfork wrote: “Torpedoes-era Heartbreakers deserve to be in the conversation with the critically-adored post-Beatles studio-rats generally referred to as “power pop”: Todd Rundgren, the Raspberries, Badfinger, Dwight Twilley, the Flamin’ Groovies, and Cheap Trick…. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers made music that still befuddles critics: they were too chill to be punk, and too famous to be underdogs. Petty was too unassuming a superstar to be Springsteen, and though he was equally gnomic and cantankerous, he was far too lyrically judicious to be Dylan.” Score: 9/10.

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