Tom Petty: an unprecedented video of “Wild Thing” from 1982 online

The “property of the artistic inheritance” of Tom Petty (disappeared in October 2017) recently released a new music video with the live cover in the studio of “Wild Thing“, originally of the TROGGS In 1966, which was recorded in the version of Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1982. The performance was carried out at the famous Studio The Record Plant in Los Angeles, during the filming of the French television program “Houba Houba”. The audio of this cover was published in 2024 as part of the deluxe reprint of the 1982 album “Long After Dark”.

The video directed by Justin Kreutzmann presents Tom and his band restored movies while performing the song, together with unpublished sequences shot by director Cameron Crowe during the realization of the documentary “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party“In 1983. This clip is available on Petty’s YouTube channel and includes a recently remastered audio. The Bonus movie also offers scenes from the band in concert, traveling on a tour bus, during radio interviews and while shooting the video of” You Got Lucky “. Kreutzmann, known for its documentaries on Rock, is the son of the drummer of the Gratteful Dead, Bill. Kreutzmann.

“Wild Thing” was written by Taylor chip and recorded for the first time in 1965 by the New York band The Wild Ones, while the Toggs version reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1966 On 11 March and marked the debut at the direction of Crowe, immortalizing Petty and his band during the promotion period and “Long After Dark” period.

In conjunction with the first of the film, a digital soundtrack containing 35 tracks was also published, which mixes classics of Petty and Heartbreakers with songs with a deluxe reprint of “Long After Dark”. The original version of “Heartbreakers Beach Party” had been broadcast only once on MTV in February 1983, but in 2024 the lost coils of the documentary were found, which were restored and remastered. The new version includes 19 minutes of unpublished archive films and an updated Crowe commentary, and was projected into selected rooms in October 2024, coinciding with the release of the deluxe re -edition of “Long After Dark”.

This deluxe edition not only contains a remastered version of the original album, but also 12 bonus traces recently, including different songs recorded for the appearance of Petty and Heartbreakers in “Houba Houba”. The package also includes cover notes written by the well -known rock journalist David Fricke, Crowe’s comments and producer Jimmy Iovine, and a booklet with texts and archival photographs.