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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Damn the Torpedoes 45th Anniversary
Tom Petty archival interview for “Damn the Torpedoes ” In the Studio

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- American Girl- San Francisco 1997
It is a miracle that "American Girl", on the 1976 debut Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers released forty-five years ago, was ever discovered to be played on album rock radio: it was sequenced tenth, last song on side 2! Here TP and the best working band in America then stripped it down to its essence in order to "make it last all night..." during a multi-night stand at San Francisco's Fillmore in February 1997.