Saturday, August 7, 2010

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes


What separates the Classic Album series from just about every other rocumentary is the way the people the story is about actively participate in the making of the film. It’s one thing to hear some critic pontificate about what made The Heartbreakers third CD such a work of art, but listening to the guys who made the music talk about the magic and mojo of catching lightning in a bottle is so much more satisfying. The added spice here is the way the film documents the struggle that Petty and the band went through with the record labels to get their music out to fans in the first place.

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