Tom Petty Estate Unveils Never-Before-Seen Video Of ‘Wild Thing’ Cover
The video shows the group playing The Troggs’ classic at The Record Plant in 1982.
Over the last year, the Tom Petty Estate has been opening their vault and sharing previously unreleased music and never-before-seen, newly remastered film from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ prolific 1982 to ’83 era. Their latest reveal is a newly restored video of Petty and the Heartbreakers performing The Troggs’ classic “Wild Thing“ at the Los Angeles-based studio The Record Plant in 1982.
“Wild Thing“ is the fourth video released from The Record Plant series, following “Keeping Me Alive,” “Finding Out” and “Stories We Could Tell.” The performance footage, directed by Justin Kreutzmann, was originally recorded for the French TV program, “Houba Houba.” The video additionally features never-before-seen bonus footage originally captured by Cameron Crowe for his 1983 film, Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party. The film has been restored and released for the first time in more than 40 years and is now streaming on Paramount+.
In conjunction with the release of Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, Geffen/UMe has also just released the digital-only Heartbreakers Beach Party: The Soundtrack which includes 35 songs from the acclaimed film alongside tracks from the recently released Deluxe Edition of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers classic 1982 album, Long After Dark.
The group’s cover of “Wild Thing” is a highlight from the expanded album. The deluxe edition of Long After Dark 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. It includes packaging designed by Grammy Award-winning designer Jeri Heiden, liner notes by legendary rock journalist and Tom Petty Radio host David Fricke, commentary from Jimmy Iovine and Cameron Crowe, and iconic archival photographs by Dennis Callahan, Neil Preston and Aaron Rappaport.
The Long After Dark set is available in a variety of configurations, including a limited edition 2LP pressing on 180-gram red with black splatter color vinyl, housed in a numbered foil tip-on jacket with an exclusive lithograph.
