TOM PETTY Who Would Have Celebrated His 75th Birthday Today About Music
20 October 2025
Tom Petty was born in Gainesville, Florida 75 years ago today.
The rock legend passed away in 2017, aged 66.
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TOM PETTY And His HEARTBREAKERS Released Fourth LP ‘HARD PROMISES’ Today 44 Years Ago
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5 May 2025
Today 44 years ago, on 5 May 1981, TOM PETTY and his
HEARTBREAKERS released their 4th LP HARD PROMISES.
Its working title was Benmont’s Revenge, referring to their keyboard player
and the band’s co-founder Benmont Tench. Hard Promises is the last full
album to feature the original Heartbreakers lineup, as bassist Ron Blair
left after the album’s release.
It reached #5 on the US Charts, #1 in New Zealand and #32 in the UK.
AllMusic‘s verdict: “It offered a reaffirmation that the previous album ‘Damn
The Torpedoes’ wasn’t a fluke. There’s not much new on the surface, since it continues
the sound of its predecessor, but it’s filled with great songwriting, something that’s as
difficult to achieve as a distinctive sound. It has a tremendous set of songs and a unified
sound that makes it one of Petty’s finest records.” Score: 4/5.
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TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Released Their 6th Album ‘SOUTHERN ACCENTS’ 40 Yearsr Ago Today
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26 March 2025
Americana rock heroes TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS released their
6th longplayer SOUTHERN ACCENTS on 26 March 1985, today 40 years ago.
It peaked at #7 in the US.
Far Out Magazine says: “It’s one of the best risks Petty ever made. There may be
a handful of 1980s clichés in the production and sonic costumes that don’t suit Petty
the best, but with time, this is the kind of album that deserves to join records like ‘Damn
The Torpedoes’ and ‘Full Moon Fever’ as one of the greatest sonic adventures of Petty’s
storied career.”
R.I.P. Tom Petty, 1950-2017
KEY SINGLE : Don’t Come Here Around No More
The original inspiration was a romantic encounter that guitarist/songwriter David
Stewart had, after a Eurythmics show, with Stevie Nicks who had just broken up with
Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. Stewart explained that the title’s phrase was actually uttered
by Nicks. At first Nicks would sing the song until she heard Tom Petty‘s vocals. She felt
she could not do the song justice as Petty did.
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TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – ‘DON’T COME HERE AROUND NO MORE’ – 40 Years Ago Today
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28 February 2025
The late Americana rock star TOM PETTY (1950-2017)
and guitarist/songwriter Dave Stewart of Eurythmics
wrote DON’T COME HERE AROUND NO MORE.
The original inspiration was a romantic encounter that guitarist/songwriter David
Stewart had, after a Eurythmics show, with Stevie Nicks who had just broken up with
Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. Stewart explained that the title’s phrase was actually uttered
by Nicks. At first Nicks would sing the song until she heard Tom Petty‘s vocals. She felt
she could not do the song justice as Petty did.
Petty & his Heartbreakers recorded the song for their Southern Accents
LP and released it as a single on 28 February 1985, today 40 years ago.
It peaked at #13 in the US and #50 in the UK.
BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 40 In 2025
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24 December 2024
Band: NEW ORDER
Album: Low Life
Their 3rd one,
#7 in the UK.
Melody Maker said: “The album boasts the most articulate sound
since The Cocteaus’ Treasure, elevating depression to ecstasy.”
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Band: THE POGUES
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash
2nd LP, #13 in the UK.
The album’s title is taken from a quotation attributed to Winston Churchill:
“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”
NME wrote: “A collection of free-ranging stuff to be sure. It’s never
sentimental, it’s rarely polite, and it’s certainly not ordinary.”
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Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: Rain Dogs
9th LP,
#188 in the US,
#29 in the UK.
The Village Voice wrote: “Waits worked out a unique and identifiable lounge-lizard
sound that suits his status as the poet of America’s non-nine-to-fivers.”
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Band: THE FALL
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace
8th longplayer.
AllMusic: “This collection is ample proof of the pure confidence the group had
at this time. The Fall sound mysterious, down-to-earth, and hilarious all at the
same time.”
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Band: THE CURE
Album: The Head On The Door
6th one, #7 in the UK.
Pitchfork: “Their most focused
pop album. A tight, terrific package.”
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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Thursday Afternoon
AllMusic: “Thursday Afternoon is an hour-long, uninterrupted ambient piece
created in Eno’s “holographic” compositional style, in which even the most brief
snippet of music is representative of the performance as a whole.”
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Band: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Album: Southern Accents
Their 6th LP,
#7 in the US.
AllMusic: “An ambitious album, attempting to incorporate touches of soul,
psychedelia, and country into a loose concept about the modern South.”
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Band: THE CULT
Album: Love
Their second LP,
# in the UK.
AllMusic: “Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each
subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band’s purest moment.”
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Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Album: Psychocandy
NME said: “A great searing citadel of beauty whose wall of noise,
once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion.”
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Band: HÜSKER DÜ
Album: Flip Your Wig
4th longplayer
#1 Indie charts UK
AllMusic: “Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.”
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TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Released Their Self-Titled Debut LP This Day 48 Years Ago
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9 November 2024
Legendary Americana rockers TOM PETTY (1950-2017) and his HEARTBREAKERS
released their self-titled debut LP this day 48 years ago, on 9 November 1976.
The album received little attention on its release in the US. It peaked at No. 24 in
the UK following a British tour, and the single Anything That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll became
a hit in GB. After nearly a year and many positive reviews, the LP finally reached
the American charts, where it got to No. 55 in 1978 and eventually went Gold.
Pitchfork: “Despite featuring two of the band’s most enduring hits, Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers’ debut is best remembered as a sketchpad for ideas that
came together later.” Score: 7/10.
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Week 43
21-27 October 2024
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Artist: BENJAMIN BOOKER
Who: soul/blues singer-songwriter
from Virginia.
Track: LWA IN THE TRAILER PARK
Lead single of his 3rd, upcoming album Lower, his first
one in 7 years. I’ll come out next year, on 24th January.
Surprising, distorted piece of music.
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Band: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
1976–2017 / 13 LPs
Track: WAYS TO BE WICKED
Previously unreleased song from the new deluxe
reissue of their 1982 album Long After Dark
A reminder (if that’s even necessary) that the
late great Tom Petty was a rocker at heart.
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Band: BON IVER
Who: American folk/pop group formed by
singer-songwriter maestro Justin Vernon.
Track: THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS
From his brand-new EP, named SABLE,.
Intriguing chant.
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Artist: TYLER, THE CREATOR
Who: The mega famous American rapper,
producer, director, actor and fashion designer.
Track: ST. COMA
A new piece that was dropped without any info.
It’s actually a teaser, only 1,30 minutes long, but
already more than 6 million views on YouTube.
A fascinating and enigmatic stream of thoughts.
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Band: PORRIDGE RADIO
Who: 4 indies from Brighton, UK.
Track: GOD OF EVERYTHING ELSE
Single from their brand-new, 4th longplayer
Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me.
Break-up passion in motion.
Late Rock Icon TOM PETTY And His HEARTBREAKERS Released 3rd LP ‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ 45 Years Ago Today
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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2 October 2024 – Rock Icon TOM PETTY Passed Away 7 Years Ago Today
2 October 2024
Seven years ago today, on 2 October 2017, the fab Americana singer-songwriter
and rocker at heart from Florida TOM PETTY passed away following an accidental
drug overdose.
He was only 66. With his band The Heartbreakers he made 13 studio LPs. Solo
he canned 3 longplayers and he released two albums with supergroup Traveling Wilburys (Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Petty).
To remember the legend TUTV picked these 3 great songs.
– ANYTHING THAT’S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL –
Debut single 1977
– DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE –
1985
– I WON’T BACK DOWN –
1989
Country Pop Crooner KURT VILE Covers TOM PETTY And THE HEARTBREAKERS’ Musing ‘SINS OF MY YOUTH’
10 September 2024
Brand-new Apple TV series Bad Monkey, a black comedy crime drama featuring
Vince Vaughn as the private eye has a soundtrack containing 8 Tom Petty songs
covered by artists such as Jason Isbell, Eddie Vedder, Jamie Jackson and The War
Of Drugs.
Kurt Vile is also part of this project. He picked Sins Of My Youth
from Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers‘ 2014 album Hypnotic Eye.
A melancholic musing that fits Vile like a glove.
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