Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Released: September 28, 2018

Songwriter: Tom Petty

Producer: Ryan Ulyate Mike W. Campbell Tom Petty

Some friends of mine and me stayed up all through the night
Rockin' pretty steady till the sky went light
And I didn't go to bed
Didn't go to work
I picked up the telephone
Told the boss he was a jerk
Your mama don't like it when you run around
With me
But we got to hip your mama
That you got to live free
Don't need her, don't need school
You don't like your daddy and you don't like rules
So, see'mon baby let's go
Don't you hear the rock 'n' roll playin' on the radio
Sounds so right
Girl you better grab hold
Everybody's got to know
Anything that's rock and roll's fine
Anything that's rock and roll's fine
Oh oo oh hold me little baby
I'm a little bit shakin'
I'm a little bit crazy
But I know what I want
I want it right now
While the 'lectric guitars are playin' way up loud
See'mon baby let's go
Don't you hear the rock 'n' roll playin' on the radio
Sounds so right
Girl you better grab hold
Everybody's got to know
Anything that's rock and roll's fine
Anything that's rock and roll's fine

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – an L.A.-based gang of sharp-dressed garage-rock refugees from Gainsville, Florida – released their debut LP in November 1976, featuring two tracks which are now part of their long list of hits, “Breakdown” and “American Girl.”

Since that first LP in ‘76, the band’s style has epitomized and largely defined the American “heartland rock” movement – a vintage-guitar twang, hard lyric truth, and searing vocal attitude.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been nominated for 17 Grammy awards and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all-time.

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