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"Rebels" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It appeared on the 1985 album Southern Accents and was released as a single in the same year. Although it only reached #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, it fared much better on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, where it peaked at #5.
"Into the Great Wide Open" is a song by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, included as the third track on their eighth studio album, Into the Great Wide Open (1991). Released as a single in September 1991, the song reached number four on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart but stalled at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The album was the second that Petty produced with Jeff Lynne, following the successful Full Moon Fever (1989). Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded the album in Studio C at Rumbo Recorders, which charged a rate of $600 per day. The studio was equipped with a 24-input Trident 80 B console and an Otari MTR90 MkII two-inch, 24-track machine.
"American Girl" was the last song performed in concert by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They played it to close out the encore of their performance on September 25, 2017, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, the final concert of their 40th Anniversary Tour. Petty died of complications from cardiac arrest after an accidental ...
Dierks Bentley joining with a trio of award-winning female bluegrass performers for a spirited take on "American Girl." 2024 CMA Awards: Dierks Bentley, bluegrass stars, cover Tom Petty's ...
Lyrically, the song is sung from the perspective of a "rebel without a clue," a line quoted by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on their 1991 song "Into the Great Wide Open." Petty and the Heartbreakers had toured with the Replacements after the release of Don't Tell a Soul and keyboardist Benmont Tench , who had been a fan of the band, often ...
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers unofficially ended when their founder and voice died in 2017, but their heartbeat endures.. A beat that started decades ago keeps beating thanks to the music ...
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.