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Thomas Earl Petty 20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017 Was An American Musician Singer Composer And Songwriter Best Known For Fronting Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Apart From The Band He Released Three Solo Albums "Full Moon Fever" 1989 "Wildflowers" 1994 And "Highway Companion" 2006 . After Working With His Early Bands The Sundowners The Epics And Mudcrutch Which Also Included Future Heartbreakers Members Mike Campbell And Benmont Tench He Began His Recording Career With Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers When The Band Broke Onto The National Music Scene With Their 1976 Self-Titled Debut Album. Still It Took America A Full Year To Catch Up To The Album. "Breakdown" Was Re-Released To Radio And Became A Top 40 Hit In 1977 After Word Filtered Back The Band Was Creating A Firestorm In England. He Was Also A Member Of The Traveling Wilburys Along With George Harrison Jeff Lynne Bob Dylan And Roy Orbison. Petty And The Heartbreakers Also Toured As A Backing Band For Bob Dylan. Petty Is A Vocal Critic Of The Modern Recording Industry Including The Disintegration Of Independent Radio Stations. Petty Has Been Supported By His Band The Heartbreakers For The Majority Of His Career. He Has Occasionally Released Solo Work As Is The Case With His 2006 Effort Highway Companion On Which He Performed Most Of The Backing Instrumentation Himself. Examples Of Other Solo Albums Include Full Moon Fever And Wildflowers Petty Died On 2 October 2017 Following A Cardiac Episode Earlier That Day At His Home In Malibu California. Although Some Media Outlets Incorrectly Reported His Death Following An Erroneous Police Report His Death Was Confirmed Later That Day By His Publicist And Manager.
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Thomas Earl Petty 20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017 Was An American Musician Singer Composer And Songwriter Best Known For Fronting Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Apart From The Band He Released Three Solo Albums "Full Moon Fever" 1989 "Wildflowers" 1994 And "Highway Companion" 2006 . After Working With His Early Bands The Sundowners The Epics And Mudcrutch Which Also Included Future Heartbreakers Members Mike Campbell And Benmont Tench He Began His Recording Career With Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers When The Band Broke Onto The National Music Scene With Their 1976 Self-Titled Debut Album. Still It Took America A Full Year To Catch Up To The Album. "Breakdown" Was Re-Released To Radio And Became A Top 40 Hit In 1977 After Word Filtered Back The Band Was Creating A Firestorm In England. He Was Also A Member Of The Traveling Wilburys Along With George Harrison Jeff Lynne Bob Dylan And Roy Orbison. Petty And The Heartbreakers Also Toured As A Backing Band For Bob Dylan. Petty Is A Vocal Critic Of The Modern Recording Industry Including The Disintegration Of Independent Radio Stations. Petty Has Been Supported By His Band The Heartbreakers For The Majority Of His Career. He Has Occasionally Released Solo Work As Is The Case With His 2006 Effort Highway Companion On Which He Performed Most Of The Backing Instrumentation Himself. Examples Of Other Solo Albums Include Full Moon Fever And Wildflowers Petty Died On 2 October 2017 Following A Cardiac Episode Earlier That Day At His Home In Malibu California. Although Some Media Outlets Incorrectly Reported His Death Following An Erroneous Police Report His Death Was Confirmed Later That Day By His Publicist And Manager.
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Damn The Torpedoes Is The Third Album By Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Released In 1979 By MCA Records. It Was Released To Commercial Success And Critical Acclaim Becoming The Band's Breakthrough Album. In 2003 The Album Was Ranked Number 313 On Rolling Stone Magazine's List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Damn The Torpedoes Was The Heartbreakers First For MCA Records. Their Old Label Shelter Had Been Sold To MCA. Petty Struggled To Legally Detach Himself From MCA Resulting In His Bankruptcy. In The End The Record Company Backed Down And He Negotiated A Deal That Allowed Him To Release His Recordings On The New Backstreet Records Label Manufactured And Distributed By MCA. The Album Was Recorded At Sound City In Van Nuys And Cherokee Studios In Hollywood. The Title Is A Reference To A Famous Quote By Admiral David Farragut "Damn The Torpedoes Full Speed Ahead!". Damn The Torpedoes Was Released In October Of 1979. The Album Was A Breakthrough For Petty And The Heartbreakers. It Was His First Top 10 Album Rising To #2 Hit For Seven Weeks And Kept From #1 By Pink Floyd's The Wall On The Billboard's Albums Chart. It Yielded Two Songs That Made The Top-Fifteen On The Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart "Don't Do Me Like That" #10 And "Refugee" #15 . It Was A Commercial Success As Well. Thanks To The New Co-Producer Jimmy Iovine Damn The Torpedoes Proved To Be A Major Leap Forward In Production.