Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers "Into The Great Wide Open" 2023-03-16 Hard to deny the heavy

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers "Into The Great Wide Open" 2023-03-16 Hard to deny the heavyInto the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in 1991. The album was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of Full Moon Fever. The first single, "Learning to Fly", became his joint longest running number one single (along with "The Waiting" from 1981's Hard Promises) on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks