99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1983!
That year PLR welcomed Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to New Haven Coliseum. Tom Petty hit the road in 1983 to support his fifth studio album “Long After Dark,” which featured the singles You Got Lucky, Change of Heart and Straight Into Darkness. Joining Tom Petty on the tour were special guests Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tour: Long After Dark
Special Guest: Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go
Saturday March 26, 1983
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Ticket Price: $12.50
Band Lineup: Tom Petty (lead vocals/guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Howie Epstein (bass), Benmont Trench (piano/organ/synthesizer), Stan Lynch (drums)
Setlist*
- A One Story Town
- Listen To Hear Heart
- A Thing About You
- You Got Lucky
- I Need To Know
- Here Comes My Girl
- Change of Heart
- The Waiting
- Hang On Sloopy (The Vibrations cover)
- Straight Into Darkness
- A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)
- Kings Road
- Breakdown
- Refugee – Encore 1
- Shout (The Isley Brothers cover) – Encore 1
- Even The Losers – Encore 2
- American Girl – Encore 2
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1983