Quiz #157 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers "Into the great wide open"

Alright. Let's test that visual memory of yours. Like... again :)

Quiz valid til next Monday, April the 20th.

UPDATED:

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were reunited for this song and Petty with producer Jeff Lynne, the first recording from the session which yielded the title track for the 1991 album Into the Great Wide Open.

Mike Campbell's slide guitar provides the appropriate rock & roll Hollywood-sleaze underpinning to the story about a rock star -- the so-called "rebel without a clue" in the song -- on his way to the big time.

The video for "Into the Great Wide Open" was "a piece of cake," says Petty, who was particularly satisfied with the way in which the simple narrative matches the action in the video. He calls it, "a very funny song and a very true song."

The video features Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway (on a break from the set of the film Arizona Dream). Again, Petty made career inroads with the video format that he may never have achieved with just the release of the song -- though it didn't have a big enough impact to land it in the charts. Yet "Into the Great Wide Open," with all its mythical rock & roll-life imagery, is a keeper with or without the visuals.

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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers "Into the great wide open"
Album "Into the great wide open" - 1991