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Love Is a Long Road (song)
1989 song by Tom Petty From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Love Is a Long Road" is a song by Tom Petty from his 1989 first solo album Full Moon Fever. Although only released as the B-side to "Free Fallin'" in the UK, and not released as a stand-alone single, it received a fair amount of radio airplay. In the U.S., it peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.[4][5]
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Background
The rock song was co-written by guitarist Mike Campbell, who was inspired by a motorcycle he owned. The musician said "I was really into that frame of mind. This feels like a motorcycle shifting gears."[2] "Love Is a Long Road" appears on the 2000 double-disc compilation album Anthology: Through the Years, as well as on the 1995 box set Playback.[1]
Critical reception
Another one of Petty's late-1980s songs which looks back at a fractured romance, AllMusic describes the song as sounding like a stripped-down version of the Who's classics "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again", and one of the most powerful rockers on the album.[1][2] Rolling Stone ranked the song at No. 38 in a list of Petty's 50 greatest songs.[2]
Media usage
In 2023, the song was used in the first trailer for the video game Grand Theft Auto VI.[6] It led to a 36,979% increase in streams on Spotify, skyrocketing from less than 5 million to nearly 40 million streams within a span of a few months.[7][8]
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