“Change Of Heart” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Long After Dark, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' fifth album, yielded "Change of Heart" as its third single in February 1983, following "You Got Lucky" on Backstreet, and the song started as a tip of the hat. Petty had fallen for the Move's 1972 single "Do Ya", especially the way Jeff Lynne handled the chords, and he wanted that same crunchy guitar riff; the words and the title only arrived once the riff was in place. Cash Box singled out his chiming guitar, his "ultra-nasal" vocal, a steady beat and busy percussion.

It reached 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first 100,000 US copies came on red vinyl in a stickered clear sleeve, backed with "Heartbreakers Beach Party", a B-side found only on this single and missing from CD until the 1995 box set Playback.

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