You Got Lucky

"You Got Lucky"
Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
from the album Long After Dark
B-side"Between Two Worlds"
ReleasedOctober 22, 1982
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:38
LabelBackstreet
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
(1981)
"You Got Lucky"
(1982)
"Change of Heart"
(1983)

"You Got Lucky" is the first single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album Long After Dark. The song peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, where it stayed for three weeks at the end of 1982. Somewhat unusually for a Petty song, guitars give up the spotlight to allow synths to carry the song's main structure.

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