Into the Great Wide Open

Into the Great Wide Open
Studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Released	July 2, 1991
Recorded	1990−91
Studio	Rumbo Studio C (Canoga Park, California) M.C. Studios
Genre	Rock
Length	43:55
Label	MCA
Producer	Jeff Lynne Tom Petty Mike Campbell
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
"Learning to Fly" Released: June 17, 1991 "Into the Great Wide Open" Released: September 9, 1991 "Too Good to Be True" Released: March 23, 1992 (UK and Germany) "Kings Highway" Released: 1992 (UK) "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).

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded the album in Studio C at Rumbo Recorders, which charged a rate of $600 per day. The studio was equipped with a 24-input Trident 80 B console and an Otari MTR90 MkII two-inch, 24-track machine.^[1]

"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.