Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song)

"Breakdown" is the first single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album. It became a Top 40 hit in the United States and Canada.^[2]

Played live, Petty sometimes incorporated "Breakdown" with Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack". A live recording of this variation appears on The Live Anthology.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers original

Track listings

7" Single (US, 1976)

A. "Breakdown" – 2:39 = background vocals were sung by fellow Shelter Records artist Phil Seymour who also sang on American Girl.

B. "The Wild One, Forever" – 3:01

7" Single (US, 1977)

A. "Breakdown" – 2:39

B. "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)" – 3:54

7" Single (Germany, 1977)

A. "Breakdown" – 2:42

B. "Luna" – 3:59

7" Single (Spain, 1978)

A. "Breakdown" – 2:42

B. "Strangered in the Night" – 3:32

Chart performance

Chart (1978)	Peak position
United States^[3]	40
Canada^[4]	40

Album appearances

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976)
FM (1978)
Pack Up the Plantation: Live! (1985)
Greatest Hits (1993)
Playback (1995)
Anthology: Through the Years (2000)
Mojo Tour 2010 (2010)

Grace Jones version

"Breakdown"

Single by Grace Jones

from the album Warm Leatherette

B-side

"Warm Leatherette"

Released

October 1980

Format

7", 12"

Genre

Reggae, new wave

Length

5:30 (album and 12" version)
3:00 (single edit)

Chris Blackwell, Alex Sadkin

Grace Jones singles chronology

"The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game"
(1980)

"Breakdown"
(1980)

"Demolition Man"
(1981)

Jamaican singer Grace Jones recorded a reggae re-imagining of the song on her 1980 album Warm Leatherette. For Grace Jones' recording, Petty wrote a third verse: "It's OK if you must go / I'll understand if you don't / You say goodbye right now / I'll still survive somehow / Why should we let this drag on?"^[5] The song was edited from its full, 5:30 album version to a 3-minute-long track on single release. It was released as a US-only single in July 1980 but didn't chart.

Track listing

7" single

A. "Breakdown" – 3:00

B. "Warm Leatherette" – 4:24

12" single

A. "Breakdown" – 5:30

B1. "Breakdown" (edit) – 3:10

B2. "Warm Leatherette" – 4:24

7" promotional single

A. "Breakdown" (stereo edit) – 3:00

B. "Breakdown" (mono edit) – 3:00

Other cover versions

"Breakdown" was covered by Suzi Quatro on her album If You Knew Suzi... (1978).
The Replacements on their 1985 live album The Shit Hits the Fans.
A live acoustic version of "Breakdown" appeared on Missy Higgins' 2009 More Than This EP featuring Brett Dennen.^[6]
Flaw performed a live cover of "Breakdown" while touring 2010.^[7]
The song was performed live by Foo Fighters while on their 2011 Wasting Light World Tour.
Christina Perri performed this song on her 2011-2012 Lovestrong Tour.
Austin Allsup covered this song on The Voice Season 11.

References

1 2 Ira A. Robbins (January 1983). The Trouser Press guide to new wave records. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-684-17943-8.
↑ Joel Whitburn, Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2010, Record Research, 2011.
↑ "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Billboard Singles)". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada (Top Singles - Volume 28, No. 24, March 11, 1978)". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
↑ Joey Michaels. "3349. "Breakdown" by Grace Jones". sadclownrep.com. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
↑ "MISSY'S NEW EP "MORE THAN THIS" by Missy Higgins on Myspace". Myspace.com. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
↑ "FLAW @ TREES DALLAS 5/20/10". YouTube. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2016-10-12.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty Mike Campbell Benmont Tench Ron Blair Scott Thurston Steve Ferrone Stan Lynch Howie Epstein

Studio albums	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You're Gonna Get It! Damn the Torpedoes Hard Promises Long After Dark Southern Accents Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Into the Great Wide Open Songs and Music from "She's the One" Echo The Last DJ Mojo Hypnotic Eye

Tom Petty solo albums	Full Moon Fever Wildflowers Highway Companion

Live albums	Official Live 'Leg Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Bad Girl Boogie The Live Anthology Mojo Tour 2010

Compilations	Greatest Hits Playback Anthology: Through the Years

Videography	Pack Up the Plantation: Live! Playback Live at the Olympic: The Last DJ Runnin' Down a Dream

Songs	"Breakdown" "American Girl" "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" "I Need to Know" "Listen to Her Heart" "Don't Do Me Like That" "Refugee" "Here Comes My Girl" "The Waiting" "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" "You Got Lucky" "Change of Heart" "Don't Come Around Here No More" "Rebels" "Make It Better (Forget About Me)" "Jammin' Me" "I Won't Back Down" "Runnin' Down a Dream" "Free Fallin'" "A Face in the Crowd" "Yer So Bad" "Learning to Fly" "Into the Great Wide Open" "Mary Jane's Last Dance" "You Don't Know How It Feels" "Christmas All Over Again" "Walls (Circus)" "The Last DJ" "Square One" "Saving Grace"

Production	Jimmy Iovine David A. Stewart Robbie Robertson Jeff Lynne Rick Rubin George Drakoulias

Related articles	Discography Awards Mudcrutch Traveling Wilburys "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"

Grace Jones

Studio albums	Portfolio (1977) Fame (1978) Muse (1979) Warm Leatherette (1980) Nightclubbing (1981) Living My Life (1982) Slave to the Rhythm (1985) Inside Story (1986) Bulletproof Heart (1989) Hurricane (2008)

Compilations	Island Life (1985) The Ultimate (1993) Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions (1998) 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones (2003) The Universal Masters Collection (2003) The Collection (2004) The Grace Jones Story (2006) The Ultimate Collection (2006) Disco (2015)

Singles	"I Need a Man" "Sorry" "La Vie en rose" "Do or Die" "On Your Knees" "A Rolling Stone" "Love Is the Drug" "Private Life" "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" "Breakdown" "Demolition Man" "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" "Pull Up to the Bumper" "Walking in the Rain" "Nipple to the Bottle" "The Apple Stretching" "My Jamaican Guy" "Cry Now, Laugh Later" "Living My Life" "Slave to the Rhythm" "Jones the Rhythm" "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)" "Party Girl" "Crush" "Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician" "Love on Top of Love" "Amado Mio" "7 Day Weekend" "Evilmainya" "Sex Drive" "Love Bites" "Hurricane (Cradle to the Grave)" "Corporate Cannibal" "Williams' Blood" "Love You to Life"

Related	Grace Jones discography A One Man Show albums songs

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