{"id":29354,"date":"2024-04-24T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-24-1989-tom-petty-released-his-first-solo-record-full-moon-fever\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:02:34","slug":"on-this-day-april-24-1989-tom-petty-released-his-first-solo-record-full-moon-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-april-24-1989-tom-petty-released-his-first-solo-record-full-moon-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, April 24, 1989: Tom Petty released his first solo record, ‘Full Moon Fever’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, April 24, 1989\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Petty\u00a0<\/strong>released his first solo album,\u00a0<\/span>Full Moon Fever.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Although it wasn\u2019t billed as a Tom Petty and\u00a0the Heartbreakers\u00a0<\/strong>record, most of the Heartbreakers were on the album, as were Petty\u2019s\u00a0Traveling Wilburys\u00a0<\/strong>bandmates\u00a0Jeff Lynne<\/strong>,\u00a0George Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Roy Orbison<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>who passed away before the album’s release.<\/span><\/p>\n

Petty’s label MCA Records and leader Irving Azoff<\/strong> originally refused to release the <\/span>Full Moon Fever<\/span><\/em>, believing there were no hit songs on it, but when management at the label changed, that decision changed as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

The album wound up landing\u00a0a trio of hit songs, including \u201cFree Fallin\u2019,\u201d which peaked at #7, \u201cI Won\u2019t Back Down\u201d and “Runnin\u2019 Down a Dream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Full Moon Fever\u00a0<\/span><\/em>went on to be a huge success for Petty, peaking at\u00a0#3 on the\u00a0<\/span>Billboard <\/span><\/em>album chart. It was also certified five-times Platinum by the RIAA, and in 2019, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Petty’s music will be celebrated with a new tribute album,\u00a0<\/span>Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty<\/span><\/em>, dropping June 21.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On This Day, April 24, 1989\u2026 Tom Petty\u00a0released his first solo album,\u00a0Full Moon Fever. Although it wasn\u2019t billed as a Tom Petty and\u00a0the Heartbreakers\u00a0record, most of the Heartbreakers were on the album, as were Petty\u2019s\u00a0Traveling Wilburys\u00a0bandmates\u00a0Jeff Lynne,\u00a0George Harrison\u00a0and\u00a0Roy Orbison,\u00a0who passed away before the album’s release. Petty’s label MCA Records andRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}