Long After Dark

Infobox Album | Name = Long After Dark
Type = Album
Artist = Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers


Released = Start date|1982|11|2
Recorded = 1981–82
Genre = Heartland rock
Length = 37:44
Label = Backstreet
Producer = Jimmy Iovine, Tom Petty
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:plz8b5b4tsqk link]
Last album = "Hard Promises"
(1981)
This album = "Long After Dark"
(1982)
Next album = "Southern Accents"
(1985)|

"Long After Dark" is the fifth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in November 1982 on Backstreet Records. Notable for the major MTV hit "You Got Lucky", the album was also the first to feature the late Howie Epstein on bass and harmony vocals. Epstein's vocals are evident throughout the album, most notably on "Change of Heart". From this point on Epstein's vocals became an integral part of the Heartbreakers' sound. There was a song recorded for this album called "Keeping Me Alive", which Petty himself is very fond of but the producer, Jimmy Iovine, disliked. Petty has expressed that he feels the album would have turned out better if the song had been included on the album. [Zollo, Paul. Conversations With Tom Petty (2005): 81–83.]

Track listing

ide one

#"A One Story Town" (Tom Petty) – 3:06
#"You Got Lucky" (Petty, Mike Campbell) – 3:37
#"Deliver Me" (Petty) – 3:28
#"Change of Heart" (Petty) – 3:18
#"Finding Out" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:36

ide two

#"We Stand a Chance" (Petty) – 3:38
#"Straight into Darkness" (Petty) – 3:49
#"The Same Old You" (Petty, Campbell) – 3:31
#"Between Two Worlds" (Petty, Campbell) – 5:12
#"A Wasted Life" (Petty) – 4:35

Musicians

* Tom Petty - Vocals, Guitars
* Mike Campbell - Guitars, Organ on "We Stand a Chance"
* Benmont Tench - Keyboard instruments, Vocals
* Stan Lynch - Drums, Vocals
* Howie Epstein - Bass Guitar, Vocals
* Phil Jones - Percussion
* Ron Blair - Bass on "Between Two Worlds"

Charts

*"Long After Dark" peaked #9 on Pop Albums in 1983.
*"Between Two Worlds" peaked #35 on Mainstream Rock in 1982.
*"One Story Town" peaked #15 on Mainstream Rock in 1982.
*"We Stand A Chance" peaked #37 on Mainstream Rock in 1982.
*"You Got Lucky" peaked #1 on Mainstream Rock in 1982.
*"Change of Heart" peaked #10 on Mainstream Rock in 1983.
*"Change of Heart" peaked #21 on Pop Singles in 1983.
*"You Got Lucky" peaked #20 on Pop Singles in 1983.

References