Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee - 08-05-1980 • TROS Top 50
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He was the lead singer and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch, and was also a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.
Petty recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. In his career, he sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Petty died at the age of 66, of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, one week after the completion of the Heartbreakers’ 40th anniversary tour.
“Refugee“ is a song from their album ’Damn the Torpedoes’. It was released in January 1980 as the second single from the album and it peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1980. The single reached no. 21 in the Dutch Top 40 on 17 May 1980 and no 20 in the TROS TOP 50.
This unique performance of Tom Petty and his band was first broadcast on 8 May 1980 in the program TROS Top 50 on 8 May 1980.
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Broadcast date: 08-05-1980
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