HomeClassic HitsOn This Day, October 19, 1979: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers release their third album, ‘Damn the Torpedoes’On This Day, October 19, 1979: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers release their third album, ‘Damn the Torpedoes’Thu, October 19, 2023SHARE NOW Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, IncOn This Day, October 19, 1979…Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their third album, Damn the Torpedoes.The record became their first top 10 album, peaking at #2. It featured the band’s first top 20 singles, “Don’t Do Me Like That,” which peaked at #10 and “Refugee,” which peaked at #15. Two other songs, “Here Comes My Girl” and “Even the Losers,” went on to become Petty classics.The album’s title is a reference to an apocryphal quote by Admiral David Farragut, who, during a Civil War battle in 1864, allegedly said, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Copyright © 2023, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
