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I have picked my top 35 favorite hard and heavy rock bands
The thirty-first band is Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida. Formed in 1976, the band originally comprised Tom Petty (lead singer, guitar), Mike Campbell (lead guitarist), Ron Blair (bass guitar), Stan Lynch (drums), and Benmont Tench (keyboards). In 1981, Blair, weary of the touring lifestyle, departed the band. His replacement, Howie Epstein, stayed with the band for the next two decades. In 1991, Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist—mostly on rhythm guitar and second keyboards. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch on drums. Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epstein's death. The band had a long string of hit singles including "Breakdown", "American Girl", "Refugee", "The Waiting", "Learning to Fly", and "Mary Jane's Last Dance", among many others, that stretched over several decades of work.
The band's music was characterized as both Southern rock and heartland rock, cited alongside artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and John Mellencamp as progenitors of that genre that arose in the late 1970s and 1980s. While the heartland rock movement waned in the 1990s, the band remained active and popular, touring regularly until Petty's death in 2017, after which the Heartbreakers disbanded. Their final studio album, Hypnotic Eye, was released in 2014.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, their first year of eligibility. Although most of their material was produced and performed under the name "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers", Petty released three solo albums, the most successful of which was Full Moon Fever (1989). In these releases, some members of the band contributed as collaborators, producing and performing as studio musicians.
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Band/Album/Track Name 10=0
A. Tom Petty/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers/Breakdown
B. Tom Petty/The Last DJ/Joe
C. Tom Petty/Full Moon Fever/I Won't Back Down
D. Tom Petty/Let Me Up(I've Had Enough)/Ain't Love Strange
E. Tom Petty/Echo/Swingin'
F. Tom Petty/Southern Accents/Don't Come Around Here No More
G. Tom Petty/Greatest Hits/I Need to Know
H. Tom Petty/You're Gonna Get It!/Magnolia
I. Tom Petty/Damn the Torpedoes/Don't Do Me Like That
J. Tom Petty/Long After Dark/You Got lucky
