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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1982 album, Long After Dark, to be reissued with bonus tracks

02 September 2024, 10:30 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

A deluxe reissue of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1982 album, Long After Dark, has been announced for release later this year.

Alongside the original tracklisting, there are 12 bonus songs and more than half of those have never been released. Accompanying the announcement is a 1982 version of "Straight Into Darkness", which was originally recorded for French TV by the director Alan Bibby.

Alongside liner notes from David Fricke, with commentary from Jimmy Iovine and Cameron Crowe, there are some words from Petty himself about the previously unreleased songs.

“There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn’t get on the record, that I thought would’ve made it a better album,” he says. “I left off… four things that I liked quite a bit. And probably a few more written that never even got in the door.”

Tracklist:

Original LP

  1. A One Story Town
  2. You Got Lucky
  3. Deliver Me
  4. Change of Heart
  5. Finding Out
  6. We Stand a Chance
  7. Straight Into Darkness
  8. The Same Old You
  9. Between Two Worlds
  10. A Wasted Life

Bonus Tracks

  1. Stories We Could Tell (French TV)
  2. Never Be You
  3. Turning Point (Original Drums Version)
  4. Don’t Make Me Walk the Line
  5. I’m Finding Out (French TV)
  6. Heartbreakers Beach Party (Extended Version)
  7. Keeping Me Alive (French TV)
  8. Straight Into Darkness (French TV)
  9. Ways to Be Wicked (Denver Sessions)
  10. Between Two Worlds (French TV)
  11. One on One
  12. Wild Thing

The forthcoming deluxe reissue of Long After Dark, is set for release on 18 October, and is available to pre-order now.

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