Full moon fever

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Full moon fever
Studio album by Tom Petty

Publication
(s)

April 24, 1989

Label (s) MCA Records

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD

Genre (s)

Heartland rock , rock 'n' roll

Title (number)

12

running time

39:58

occupation

production

Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell

Studio (s)

MC Studios, Rumbo Studios, Sunset Sound, Devonshire Studios, Conway Studios, Sound City Studios

chronology
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)
(1987) 		Full moon fever Into the Great Wide Open
(1991)

Full Moon Fever is the debut solo album of American musician Tom Petty , that on 24 April 1989 the label was released MCA Records. Although it was created without Petty's band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , most of the band members participated in the recordings. In addition to Tom Petty, producers were his band colleague Mike Campbell and Jeff Lynne . The musicians George Harrison and Roy Orbison also worked on the album, who formed the group Traveling Wilburys together with Petty, Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan who was not involved in the album . Full Moon Fever became a commercial success, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album received successful single releases such as I Won't Back Down , Free Fallin ' and Runnin' Down a Dream , which also made it into the charts.

History of origin

Petty got the idea to create a solo album in early 1987 after a tour with the Heartbreakers as part of their album Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) . Although this was recorded mixed by the members of the band, all musicians took part in the recordings of the solo album with the exception of the drummer Stan Lynch , who finally left the group in 1994 after further differences with Petty.

The recordings for Full Moon Fever were made during 1988 with the participation of numerous friends of Tom Petty's. Around the same time, the recordings for the first album of the Traveling Wilburys were made , whose member Petty was together with Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan. With the exception of Dylan, all musicians were also involved in the production of Full Moon Fever . While Orbison contributed the background vocals to the song Zombie Zoo , Harrison can be heard as a background singer and guitarist in the successful single I Won't Back Down .

Two of the originally planned tracks ( Down the Line and Don't Treat Me Like A Stranger ) did not make it onto the finished album, but were later used as the B-side for the single releases. While recording Full Moon Fever , Petty wrote a song called Indiana Girl , which was released in 1993 under the new title Mary Jane's Last Dance and became a chart success.

In the CD version of the album, after track 6 ( Feel a Whole Lot Better ), an interlude can be heard in which Tom Petty draws the listener's attention to the fact that at this point the owner of an LP or cassette would have to change sides and therefore “um to be fair ”there is a short break.

Content and style

Full Moon Fever's style was heavily influenced by producer Jeff Lynne, which musically sets it apart from Tom Petty's albums with the Heartbreakers . Lynne intended a Beatles- like sound through the use of keyboards and background vocals . Petty's cover for I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better by The Byrds , included on the album, is a nod to the band's influence on Petty's musical style. The track Runnin 'Down a Dream also mentions another influence in the musician's career with Del Shannon and his song Runaway .

The songs on the album were created under the influence of various musicians and styles of music. The track A Mind With a Heart of Its Own has a rhythm in the style of rock'n'roll and blues musician Bo Diddley , while The Apartement Song is reminiscent of Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue through the use of a rudiment .

reception

The album was mostly received very positively by contemporary reviews. An article on Rolling Stone compared Petty's solo album with Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 , published in 1988, and stated that both albums had the same restless charm. In November 1989, Full Moon Fever was voted number 92 of the 100 best albums of the 80s by magazine.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from the music platform Allmusic awarded Full Moon Fever four and a half out of a possible five stars and compared it to the Heartbreakers album Damn the Torpedoes from 1979. Free Fallin ' could possibly be Tom Petty's best song, he described the album as a “little masterpiece ".

Track list

Page 1:

  1. Free Fallin ' (Petty, Lynne) - 4:14 *
  2. I Won't Back Down (Petty, Lynne) - 2:56 *
  3. Love Is a Long Road (Petty, Campbell) - 4:06
  4. A Face in the Crowd (Petty, Lynne) - 3:58 *
  5. Runnin 'Down a Dream (Petty, Lynne, Campbell) - 4:23 *

Page 2:

  1. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better ( Clark ) - 2:47 *
  2. Yer So Bad (Petty, Lynne) - 3:05 *
  3. Depending on You (Petty) - 2:47
  4. The Apartment Song (Petty) - 2:31
  5. Alright for Now (Petty) - 2:00
  6. A Mind with a Heart of Its Own (Petty, Lynne) - 3:29
  7. Zombie Zoo (Petty, Lynne) - 2:56

* Single release

Chart placements

album

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 41 (18 weeks) 18th
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 73 (1 week) 1
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 8th (16 weeks) 16
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 3 (77 weeks) 77

Single releases

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1989 I won't back down DE66 (10 weeks)
DE 		- UK28 (11 weeks)
UK 		US12 (15 weeks)
US
First published: April 1989
Runnin 'down a dream - - UK55 (5 weeks)
UK 		US23 (14 weeks)
US
First published: July 29, 1989
Free fallin ' - CH86 (1 week)
CH 		UK59
gold
gold

(8 weeks)UK 		US7 (21 weeks)
US
First published: October 27, 1989; 177th place in the Rolling Stone 500
1990 A face in the crowd - - UK93 (2 weeks)
UK 		US46 (8 weeks)
US
First published: February 1990

Awards for music sales

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Platinum record icon.svg 5 × platinum 5,000,000
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) Platinum record icon.svg 6 × platinum 600,000
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Gold record icon.svg gold 100,000
Sweden (IFPI) Sweden (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold 50,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg2 × gold
Platinum record icon.svg11 × platinum
 5,750,000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jimmy Guterman: Full Moon Fever. In: Rolling Stone . May 4, 1989, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Corcoran: Tom Petty's 1989 Full Moon Fever Cover Story: Raised on Promises. In: Spin . October 3, 2017, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Raised On Promises in: Spin . Volume 5, Issue 5, SPIN Media LLC, August 1989, page 46.
  4. ↑ 'A Song For Any Struggle': Tom Petty's 'I Won't Back Down' Is An Anthem Of Resolve. In: National Public Radio . May 8, 2019, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty. In: Classic Rock Review. April 29, 2014, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Hello, CD listeners. We've come to the point in this album where those listening on cassette, or record, will have to stand up, or sit down, and turn over the record, or tape. In fairness to those listeners, we'll now take a few seconds before we begin side two . (Pause) Thank you. Here's side two
  7. ↑ a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Tom Petty Full Moon Fever. In: Allmusic . Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Florian Nöhbauer: Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . July 8, 2011, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Chris Jones: Tom Petty Full Moon Fever Review. In: British Broadcasting Corporation . 2009, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Tom Petty, 'Full Moon Fever'. In: Rolling Stone . November 16, 1989, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE , AT , CH , UK , US