"Love Is a Long Road" | |
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Song by Tom Petty | |
from the album Full Moon Fever | |
A-side | " Free Fallin'" (UK) |
Released | 1989 |
Recorded | 1987–1988 |
Genre | |
Length | 4:07 |
Label | MCA |
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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]
The rock song was co-written by guitarist Mike Campbell, who was inspired by a motorcycle he owned. The musician told "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]
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]
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]
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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US Album Rock Tracks ( Billboard) [9] | 7 |
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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US Rock Digital Song Sales ( Billboard) [10] | 7 |
"Love Is a Long Road" | |
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Song by Tom Petty | |
from the album Full Moon Fever | |
A-side | " Free Fallin'" (UK) |
Released | 1989 |
Recorded | 1987–1988 |
Genre | |
Length | 4:07 |
Label | MCA |
Songwriter(s) |
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Producer(s) |
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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]
The rock song was co-written by guitarist Mike Campbell, who was inspired by a motorcycle he owned. The musician told "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]
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]
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]
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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US Album Rock Tracks ( Billboard) [9] | 7 |
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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US Rock Digital Song Sales ( Billboard) [10] | 7 |