The Tom Petty Estate has shared a new music video for “Never Be You,” which is featured on the recently released deluxe edition of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers groundbreaking 1982 album Long After Dark.
The video was created by Emmy Award-winning animator, painter, and experimental filmmaker Jeff Scher (Bob Dylan, Graham Nash, Paul Simon) and features his trademark kaleidoscopic style of hundreds of drawings that he colors and paints with a variety of mediums to bring them to life with extraordinary effect.
Co-written by fellow Heartbreaker Benmont Tench, Petty’s haunting version of “Never Be You” was amongst the music left off the original album in 1982, instead becoming a No.1 country hit for Rosanne Cash.
Check out the new video for the track below.
Earlier this month, more unearthed French TV footage of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers from the Long After Dark era has hit YouTube. A newly restored 1982 performance of “Finding Out” at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, captured by director Justin Kreutzmann, followed previously released clips of “Between Two Worlds” and “Keeping Me Alive” from the same session. The audio from these performances is featured on the Long After Dark reissue.
“[‘Finding Out’] is a really exciting song and I love it,” producer Ryan Ulyate says of the song. “The tempo is up. There’s a version of it that they did live in the studio which is on [Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition)] that’s even faster. I left some of the chatter in there, and I think Benmont Tench just says, ‘God that was fast!’”
Long After Dark is the Heartbreakers’ fifth studio album and the first to feature bassist and backing vocalist Howie Epstein. Produced by Petty and Jimmy Iovine, it features the hits “You Got Lucky” and “Change Of Heart.” Upon its original release, Rolling Stone called it Petty’s “most accomplished record.” Critic Fred Schruers continued, “Petty has narrowed his world to a one-on-one emotional connection and decided to cut a few simple truths into stone. He’s going about it with a trim, meticulously recorded group sound that makes every fistful of strings grabbed by Petty or Mike Campbell sound as near and natural as a fast river parted by rocks.”
Order the deluxe edition of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark.