Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Oxford Polytechnic in 1980

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Oxford Polytechnic in 1980
playing live in Oxford in 1980. The set includes a selection of tracks from their then just released third album Damn The Torpedoes as well as hits like Breakdown and American Girl.

Thomas Earl Petty ( 1950 – 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. His hit singles with the Heartbreakers include "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979), "Refugee" (1980),

Petty died of an accidental drug overdose on October 2, 2017, one week after the end of the Heartbreakers' 40th Anniversary Tour.