Long After Dark
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| Studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | ||||
| Released | November 2, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1981–82 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant, Wally Heider's and Crystal, Hollywood, CA; Rumbo Studios, Canoga Park, CA | |||
| Genre | Heartland rock | |||
| Length | 37:44 | |||
| Label | Backstreet | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Iovine, Tom Petty | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Chicago Tribune |  |
| Robert Christgau | C+ |
| The Essential Rock Discography | 5/10 |
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Long After Dark is the fifth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in November 1982 on Backstreet Records. Notable for the major MTV hit "You Got Lucky", the album was also the first to feature the late Howie Epstein on bass and harmony vocals. Epstein's vocals are evident throughout the album, most notably on "Change of Heart". From this point on Epstein's vocals became an integral part of the Heartbreakers' sound. In addition, it was the first Heartbreakers album to feature a real synthesizer on record.
There was a song recorded for this album called "Keeping Me Alive", which Petty himself is very fond of but the producer, Jimmy Iovine, disliked. Petty has expressed that he feels the album would have turned out better if the song had been included on the album. "Keeping Me Alive" was eventually released on Petty's 1995 box set compilation Playback.
All songs were written by Tom Petty, except where noted.
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