“Into The Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

"Into the Great Wide Open" is the title song of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' eighth studio album, from 1991, and it came out as a single that September. It climbed to number four on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart, though it stalled at 92 on the Hot 100 and got to 23 in Canada.

Then there's the video. Julien Temple directed it, with Johnny Depp as the hero, Eddie Rebel, Gabrielle Anwar as his girlfriend and Faye Dunaway as his manager, plus cameos from Terence Trent D'Arby, Chynna Phillips and Matt LeBlanc. They shot it while Arizona Dream, the film Depp and Dunaway were both making, was on hold, and the song was stretched out to make room for more of Temple's 18 minutes of film.

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