A special deluxe edition of Long After Dark, an album from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers is to be released next month.
The album which had made its debut in 1982, will be released via Geffen/UMe on October 18, and can be pre ordered here.
This special edition of the album will also include previously unseen and newly remastered film and audio from 1982 to 1983, including a new video for the French TV version of 'Straight Into Darkness'.
It will also feature footage of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performing at the Record Plant by Alan Bibby, and award-winning director. Check that out here.
Twelve rediscovered bonus songs will also be included in this deluxe edition of Long After Dark, as well as liner nots, and commentary from Jimmy Lovine and Cameron Crowe.
Long After Dark did feature three favourites from the band including, “You Got Lucky,” “Change of Heart” and “Straight Into Darkness". The album was also certified gold and reached the Billboard Top 10.
Find out more information on the Tom Petty website here.
Last year, the estate of the late singer Tom Petty have shared three previously unreleased tracks, as well as reissuing his album ‘Mojo’.
The album was released by Petty with his band The Heartbreakers that year in 2010, and the reissue, along with the new tracks, were released to mark what would have been his 73rd birthday.
It also included new tracks have also been added to it, including ‘Mystery Of Love’, and ‘Help Me’.
Elsewhere, another track ‘What’s The Matter With Louise’ has also been released for the first time. This song was recorded around the same time that Petty was putting together songs for his 1994 album, ‘Wildflowers’.
Petty had previously described this album as “where the band lives when it’s playing for itself”.
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