Into the Great Wide Open

For the song, see Into the Great Wide Open (song).
Into the Great Wide Open
Studio album by
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
ReleasedJuly 2, 1991
Recorded1990−91
Studio
  • Rumbo Studio C (Canoga Park, California)
  • M.C. Studios
GenreRock
Length43:55
LabelMCA
Producer
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers chronology
Full Moon Fever
(1989) 		Into the Great Wide Open
(1991) 		Greatest Hits
(1993)
Singles from Into the Great Wide Open
  1. "Learning to Fly"
    Released: June 17, 1991
  2. "Into the Great Wide Open"
    Released: September 9, 1991
  3. "Too Good to Be True"
    Released: March 23, 1992 (UK and Germany)
  4. "Kings Highway"
    Released: 1992 (UK)
  5. "All or Nothin'"
    Released: 1992 (Germany)

Into the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Released in July 1991, it was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second that Petty produced with Jeff Lynne, following the successful Full Moon Fever (1989).

"Learning to Fly", the first single from the album, spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, tying "The Waiting" (1981) for the band's longest run atop the chart. The album's second single, "Out in the Cold", also topped the Mainstream Rock chart, though for two weeks.

The music video for the title track stars Johnny Depp as "Eddie", who moves to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, Matt LeBlanc, Terence Trent D'Arby, and Chynna Phillips.