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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

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2018 - An American Treasure
2016 - The Complete Studio Albums, Volume 1 (1976–1991)
2016 - The Complete Studio Albums, Volume 2 (1994–2014)
2014 - Hypnotic Eye
2010 - Mojo
2009 - The Live Anthology
2008 - Greatest Hits
2002 - The Last DJ
2000 - Anthology: Through the Years
1999 - Echo
1996 - Songs and Music From the Motion Picture “She's the One”
1996 - 1996‐09‐28: Saturday Night Live: New York, NY, USA
1995 - Playback
1993 - Greatest Hits
1991 - Into the Great Wide Open
1991 - Into the Great Wide Open
1991 - Learning to Fly
1987 - Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)
1986 - Pack Up the Plantation: Live!
1985 - Southern Accents
1982 - Long After Dark
1981 - Hard Promises
1979 - Damn the Torpedoes
1978 - You're Gonna Get It!
1976 - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Members
5 Male

Origin
Gainesville, USA

Genre
Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Good Natured

Born

1976

Active
1976 to 2017

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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I Won't Back Down	Free Fallin'	The Waiting
Swingin'	Gainesville (outtake, ...	Learning to Fly
Don't Come Around Here...	Don't Come Around Here...	Refugee

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida. 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. In 1982, Blair, weary of the touring lifestyle, departed the band. His replacement, Howie Epstein, stayed with the band for the next two decades. In 1991, Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist—mostly on rhythm guitar and second keyboard. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch on drums. Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epstein's death. 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.

Although Petty insists that the band be referred to as rock and roll, the Heartbreakers' 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. 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. Their final studio album, Hypnotic Eye, was released in 2014.

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, their first year of eligibility. 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). In these releases, some members of the band contributed as collaborators, producing and performing as studio musicians.


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