![]() ![]() Originally signed to Shelter Records and its publishing arm, Skyhill Music, Petty had been persuaded to give away his song publishing in exchange for a small advance, recoupable against sales, and slim royalty rate. It’s a fitting title for Tom Petty’s third album with the Heartbreakers, recorded as he waged battle with a rapacious record company determined to hold the Florida rocker to a disastrous contract. “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” That venerable slogan paraphrases the order Rear Admiral David Farragut gave to Union ships as they steamed through a minefield to challenge a Confederate fleet during the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, in August 1864, risking disaster to seize victory.
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