Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released their album, Long After Dark, in 1982, but now, in 2024, the album is being reissued via its deluxe edition.
Long After Dark is considered to be the band's "misunderstood and underrated success," and this updated version will feature the songs that were lost in the debate over the album's original direction, including Petty's version of "Never Be You," an up-tempo version of "Ways To Be Wicked," which was previously covered by Lone Justice, recorded at Applewood Studios in Denver, Colorado, and more.
Tom Petty once said of Long After Dark, "There was some music recorded for Long After Dark that didn't get on the record, that I thought would've made it a better album. I left off....four things that I liked quite a bit. And probably a few more written that never even got in the door."
Via a press release, Jimmy Iovine reflects on the band's third and final album together, "Long After Dark, we thought we had it. Sounded like Positively Fourth Street, sounded like one of those records, you know. By the way, I think it is!"
Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition) features the newly remastered original album from the original analog master tapes, plus 12 rediscovered bonus tracks, newly mixed by Petty’s longtime engineer Ryan Ulyate and boasts packaging designed by Grammy Award-winning designer Jeri Heiden, liner notes by legendary rock journalist and Tom Petty Radio host David Fricke, with commentary from Jimmy Iovine and Cameron Crowe and iconic archival photographs by Dennis Callahan, Neal Preston and Aaron Rapoport.