On this day (April 24) in 1989, Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever, his debut solo album. He finished the album the previous year. However, his label, MCA, refused to release it. While trying to ...

Tom Petty made the momentous decision to go solo on his 1989 album Full Moon Fever. The album was rapturously received. It earned a ton of critical love while also putting Petty in the upper echelon ...

When Tom Petty released his debut album, the self-titled Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, he was confident but not cocky. "It is not really like anything you're going to hear," he said to the ...

Sometimes, it all starts with a riff — a singular piece of music that ends up anchoring an entire song. This is what happened with Tom Petty‘s “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” a track from his 1989 solo album ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I've always wanted the freedom to do something like that," the late Petty once said of making the solo album, in an interview ...