10 Great Albums That Came Out After The Band Split Up
8. Tom Petty - Finding Wildflowers
Rock music has produced some truly upstanding figures to represent it through the decades, but there are few who can hold a candle to the good-natured, easy going legacy of Tom Petty. As the man who once sued his own record label because he thought they were ripping off his fans after making his albums too expensive, Petty is a clear martyr of everything rock music stands for.
Originally released in 1994 and Tom Petty’s second studio album (although he had already released eight records with The Heartbreakers by then), ‘Wildflowers’ was a chart topping rock album in its heyday. Including the hit single ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels’, this solo album still holds up as one of Petty’s best records to this.
Tragically, Petty died in 2017 aged 66 but it was not the end of the road. His family and former bandmates revealed that ‘Wildflowers’ was originally meant to be 25 tracks long, but the record label had advised Petty against releasing a record that long. In 2020, his former bandmates arranged for ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ was finally released in its full glory some 26 years after the original cutback version. This allowed fans to hear previously unreleased songs such as ‘Confusion Wheel’ and ‘Harry Green’ for the first time.