Official Live ‘Leg is a short, live, promotional LP by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers issued by Shelter Records in 1977. It was recorded at Paul’s Mall in Boston on December 12, 1976. Continue reading Tom Petty Official Live ‘Leg 1976
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Live Albums By Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Despite appearing at the same time as punk rock and new wave, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers quickly broke into the mainstream.
It’s useful to see the studio albums and big hit singles before looking in detail at the live albums.
Studio Albums By Tom Petty / Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
I’ve marked the top 10 US album chart appearances
1976 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
1978 You’re Gonna Get It!
1979 Damn the Torpedoes peaked at #2 in the US album charts
1981 Hard Promises #5
1982 Long After Dark #9
1985 Southern Accents #7
1987 Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough)
1989 Full Moon Fever #3
1991 Into the Great Wide Open
1994 Wildflowers #8
1996 Songs and Music from “She’s the One”
1999 Echo
2002 The Last DJ #9
2006 Highway Companion #4
2010 Mojo #2
2014 Hypnotic Eye #1
US Top 20 singles include:
1979 Don’t Do Me Like That #10
1980 Refugee #15
1981 The Waiting #19
1982 You Got Lucky #20
1983 Don’t Come Around Here No More #13
1987 Jammin’ me #18
1989 I Won’t Back Down #12
1989 Free Fallin’ #7
1993 Mary Jane’s Last Dance #14
1994 You Don’t Know How It Feels #13
Live Albums By Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty has released the following live albums:
1976 Official Live ‘Leg released in 1977
1978 to 1985 Pack Up the Plantation Live released in 1985
1976 to 2007 The Live Anthology released in 2009
2010 Mojo Tour released in 2010
2010 Kiss My Amps released in 2011
plus the EP:
2003 Bad Girl Boogie EP
We are also seeing more unofficial (but I understand legal) live recordings by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers that have been radio broadcasts in the past.
1977 The New York Shuffle
1977 Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Live At My Fathers Place Roslyn New York City
1986 Live To Air
1987 In The Coliseum
1987 Breakdown
1987 1989 Transmission Impossible
1989 Dean E Smith Activity Center University Of Carolina Sept 13 1989
1993 Southern Accents In The Sunshine State
2002 Live at the Olympic Last DJ & More
2003 Live In Chicago
? The Broadcast Rarities: Live
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Tom Petty Live At The Olympic Last DJ & More 2002
Live at the Olympic: Last DJ & More is a concert DVD with a short bonus CD by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
The CD is the same as Bad Girl Boogie.
It was recorded at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles on October 16, 2002.
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Tom Petty Transmission Impossible 1987 1989
Transmission Impossible is a three CD collection of live radio and TV broadcasts.
- Disc 1 – The Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL, 24th July 1987
- Disc 2 – Dean’s Dome, Chapel Hill, NC, 13th September 1989
- Disc 3 – RARE TV BROADCASTS 1978 – 1994
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Tom Petty Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Live At My Fathers Place Roslyn New York City 1977
Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll: Live At My Fathers Place, Roslyn, New York City is a live album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
It was recorded on November 29, 1977 for a radio broadcast and released on the Brr label with ASIN B00XZJCNW6 on July 10, 2015.
An mp3 version has appeared in the UK on the Lilith Records label.
Tom Petty Southern Accents In The Sunshine State 1993
Southern Accents In The Sunshine State is a live album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
It was recorded in 1993 and was his first concert in his home town of Gainesville, Florida for twenty years.
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The Best Live Albums By Tom Petty
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers had great success with their studio albums including Damn the Torpedoes (1979), Hard Promises (1981), Southern Accents (1985) and Into the Great Wide Open (1991) but they don’t have a highly acclaimed live album to they extent that they deserve.
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Tom Petty Dean E Smith Activity Center University Of Carolina Sept 13 1989
Dean E Smith Activity Center University Of Carolina Sept 13 1989 is a live album by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
It was recorded on the Strange Behaviour tour as they promoted Petty’s solo album Full Moon Fever. This is a radio broadcast that has now been released on CD and mp3 (in the UK) on the Klondike label so it isn’t a TP approved product.
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Tom Petty Live In Chicago 2003
Live In Chicago is a live recording by Tom Petty.
This is the audio from the DVD, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Live from the 2003 Chicago concert.
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Tom Petty Live To Air 1986
Tom Petty Live To Air is a radio broadcast that has been released as a live album by The Store For Music label. It was recorded in Buffalo in July 1986 and also features Bob Dylan.
This is not officially recognised by Tom Petty but (I think) it squeezes through the copyright laws in Europe.
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Tom Petty The New York Shuffle 1977
The New York Shuffle is an unofficial live album featuring Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released on the Sonic Boom label.
It was recorded at My Father’s Place on Long Island, New York on 29th November 1977. Two bonus cuts were recorded earlier in the year at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.
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