LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 24, 2019…ON THIS DATE 30 YEARS AGO, TOM PETTY RELEASED HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM (AWAY FROM THE HEARTBREAKERS). THE ALBUM WAS ‘FULL MOON FEVER’
THE ALBUM WAS A SOLO PROJECT, BUT IT FEATURED MEMBERS OF THE HEARTBREAKERS, PLUS ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE TRAVELLING WILBURYS !
THE ALBUM WAS HUGE FOR PETTY IN TERMS OF SALES, TO DATE IT HAS SOLD OVER 6 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE. IT WALSO PRODUCED 4 HIT SINGLES ‘RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM’ ‘YER SO BAD’ ‘I WON’T BACK DOWN’ AND ‘FREE FALLIN’
HERE’S A TREAT. PETTY PERFORMING ‘FREE FALLIN’ AT THE SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE CIRCA 1994
