Album: Pack Up The Plantation: Live!
Video: From YouTube.
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: did not chart
MTV Top 20 Peak: 12
MTV Top 20 Weeks: 3
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' 1985 concert tour was so successful that it led to their first live album, "Pack Up The Plantation: Live!" (The exclamation point is part of the title.) The tour and album birthed this video, which I recall being played incessantly on MTV in 1986.
As I've said before, it took me a long time to come around to Tom Petty. In my view, the weakest period of his career was occurring just as I was starting to come of age as a music fan. But since he's produced such a strong body of work besides this period, Tom and I are cool.
"So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star" was originally a Byrds song in 1967, where it peaked at #29 as a single. The Petty cover version was not released as a single, making it one of only two videos in the 1986 MTV Top 100 video countdown that did not appear on the Billboard charts.
The video entered the MTV weekly countdown at #18 on January 17, 1986, and held that position the following week. In its third week, the video vaulted six spots up the chart to #12, and seemed to be poised for a top 10 run. However, the following week it disappeared from the charts completely, never to return, just as it has disappeared from our collective consciousness.
I suppose we can name five things about this video.
1) It is an unedited live performance video from the "Southern Accents" tour. No additional scenes or parallel storyline, pretty boring.
2) The concert took place at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California, on August 7, 1985. I have been to the Wiltern Theater.
3) Tom Petty's shirt is patterned with planets and moons, and atoms I think. Saturn is one of the planets.
4) There is a guy with a mullet playing a horn.
5) There is a girl playing a tambourine. She appears to be a redhead, hard to tell as she appears mostly in silhouette.
That is all.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' 1985 concert tour was so successful that it led to their first live album, "Pack Up The Plantation: Live!" (The exclamation point is part of the title.) The tour and album birthed this video, which I recall being played incessantly on MTV in 1986.
As I've said before, it took me a long time to come around to Tom Petty. In my view, the weakest period of his career was occurring just as I was starting to come of age as a music fan. But since he's produced such a strong body of work besides this period, Tom and I are cool.
"So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star" was originally a Byrds song in 1967, where it peaked at #29 as a single. The Petty cover version was not released as a single, making it one of only two videos in the 1986 MTV Top 100 video countdown that did not appear on the Billboard charts.
The video entered the MTV weekly countdown at #18 on January 17, 1986, and held that position the following week. In its third week, the video vaulted six spots up the chart to #12, and seemed to be poised for a top 10 run. However, the following week it disappeared from the charts completely, never to return, just as it has disappeared from our collective consciousness.
I suppose we can name five things about this video.
1) It is an unedited live performance video from the "Southern Accents" tour. No additional scenes or parallel storyline, pretty boring.
2) The concert took place at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, California, on August 7, 1985. I have been to the Wiltern Theater.
3) Tom Petty's shirt is patterned with planets and moons, and atoms I think. Saturn is one of the planets.
4) There is a guy with a mullet playing a horn.
5) There is a girl playing a tambourine. She appears to be a redhead, hard to tell as she appears mostly in silhouette.
That is all.
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