Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'Long After Dark' Album Gets a Makeover

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Long After Dark Album Gets Deluxe Reissue With Unreleased Tracks

The album Long After Dark of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will benefit from a Deluxe reissue this fall, resuming the original 1982 album with an additional disc, containing previously unreleased tracks. Long After Dark Deluxe Editionwhich will come out October 18th via Geffen/UMe, contains a dozen titles “discovered”including seven previously unreleased tracks, some of which were recorded for the album but left aside.

Unreleased tracks include Petty's version of “Never Be You,” which later became a hit for Rosanne Cash, “Don't Make Me Walk the Line,” “One on One” and “Ways to Be Wicked,” a Petty-Mike Campbell co-write that ended up on Lone Justice's 1985 album.

Other tracks on the bonus disc include songs Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded for French television (cock-a-doodle-doo), including “Between Two Worlds” and “Straight Into Darkness” from Long After DarkThe French version of the latter is now accompanied by remastered footage of the band performing at the Record Plant in 1982.

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