Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers launched Long After Dark, their fifth studio album, in Nov. 1982. Barely two weeks after the file was out, the band was within the studio taking calls from followers to debate the album on the syndicated radio program Rockline.

With an expanded version of Long After Dark arriving this week, Ultimate Classic Rock Nights will rebroadcast the Petty Rockline episode for the primary time since its authentic airing on Wednesday (Oct. 16) at 10pm EST. You can hear on affiliate stations or stream it reside right here at the moment.

It was an vital time for the group, as director Cameron Crowe lately shared with UCR. He joined the band in studio that night time at Rockline, as a result of they have been additionally filming for what would turn out to be 1983’s Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party.

“[Tom Petty] really had something to say. I think he was at the crossroads then. I think he felt that there was a shot this band was going to go the distance. [Hard Promises] was a thoughtful follow-up to Damn the Torpedoes,” Crowe explains. “But now, it was a time to kind of remind people that they did have rock in their arsenal. They did know how to blow it out and write all kinds of songs in many different genres.”

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“It’s about the band. The band was f–king unbelievable, first album,” Adria Petty instructed UCR in a separate dialog. “You know, some people have one hit and they have a career — or three hits, that’s a career forever. But they had that on the first record. I think in the case of Long After Dark, there was more of a revelation there maybe than we thought, in terms of the importance of where the band was at.”

Listen to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ ‘Straight Into Darkness’ From ‘Long After Dark’

Petty and the group have been in good spirits throughout the Rockline broadcast, as they sat with host Bob Coburn, speaking to listeners and answering a number of questions. Though that they had been a band for lower than a decade, a lot had occurred in that point, as Petty detailed, telling Coburn about their journey from being on Leon Russell and Denny Cordell’s Shelter Records to the current day occasions of Long After Dark.

Thanks to the generosity of Coburn and Petty’s respective estates, followers can hear the unique broadcast another time on Wednesday night at 10pm EST.

Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party will probably be in theaters for the primary time ever on Thursday (Oct. 17) and Sunday (Oct. 20) courtesy of Trafalgar Releasing. Find native showtimes in your space by way of the movie’s web site.