• Damn the Torpedoes is the third studio album by the American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on October 19, 1979. It was the first...
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  • Look up damn the torpedoes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Damn the torpedoes may refer to: A quotation attributed to David Farragut, referring to...
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    S. Navy tradition for his bold order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually abbreviated to "Damn the torpedoes . . . full speed ahead." Born near Knoxville...
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    forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines and Powell. Farragut's perhaps apocryphal order of "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain...
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    "Damn the Torpedoes – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers". AllMusic. Retrieved January 11, 2018. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Hard Promises – Tom Petty & the...
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  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released in November 1979 as the first single from the album Damn the Torpedoes (1979). It was the first of three...
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    and the Heartbreakers prepared to release Hard Promises (1981), the follow-up album to Damn the Torpedoes. MCA wanted to release the record at the list...
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    first Top 40 album, featuring the singles "I Need to Know" and "Listen to Her Heart". Their third album, Damn the Torpedoes, quickly went platinum, selling...
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  • "Even the Losers," "Learning to Fly," "Listen to Her Heart," "Here Comes My Girl," "Walls," "Mary Jane's Last Dance." "Album Review: "Damn the Torpedoes" by...
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  • Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released in January 1980 as the second single from their album Damn the Torpedoes, and peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard...
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    included her Top 40 hit "Because the Night". He later collaborated with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the Torpedoes and U2 on Rattle and Hum. Iovine...
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  • (from Into the Great Wide Open, 1991) – 4:01 "Here Comes My Girl" (Petty, Campbell) (from Damn the Torpedoes) – 4:24 "The Last DJ" (from The Last DJ) –...
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  • recorded during sessions for the band's first album but left off the record, recorded again in 1979 but left off "Damn The Torpedoes," and finally recorded...
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  • Petty and the Heartbreakers, their third single from their breakthrough hit 1979 album, Damn the Torpedoes. It peaked at number 59 on the U.S. Billboard...
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    released in 1980 and reached the top 40, and they even opened for Tom Petty on his US tour for Damn the Torpedoes. The band's second album, Tommy Tutone...
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  • fiction-legal drama "Century City", a song by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers from the 1979 album Damn the Torpedoes All pages with titles beginning with Century City...
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  • the deluxe version of An American Treasure. An American Treasure & Damn the Torpedoes (Deluxe Edition) Tom Petty – vocals, rhythm guitar Ron Blair – bass...
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  • tracks, as well as the first since Damn the Torpedoes not produced by Jimmy Iovine. The Heartbreakers' approach when starting to work on the album in 1986...
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    subsurface) marine torpedoes in 1810, and experiments were conducted using spar torpedoes that year. Boats carrying spar torpedoes were used during the War of 1812...
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    This is the discography of Tom Petty, who was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Petty released 13 studio albums as the lead singer of Tom Petty...
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  • Hits Damn the Torpedoes Graceland Home - Classic Albums Live Classic Albums Live Infantry, Ashante (21 August 2008). "With all due respect to The Artist"...
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  • Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The other new song on the album is a cover of the Thunderclap Newman hit "Something in the Air". The album contains no songs from...
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    Farragut. It was to Drayton that Farragut issued his famous command, "Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!" Drayton was born in Charleston, South Carolina...
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    year. On June 7, in a blog post entitled "Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead", Celsius addressed rumors that the company had lost client funds by making...
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    Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012. Dorr, Robert F. (12 June 2006). "Damn the Torpedoes!: China Service...
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    commanded a division of the squadron. He was present at the Battle of Mobile Bay and heard Farragut utter the famous line "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead...
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  • everyone sticks to the plan for next year to be the last, I'm hopeful that the creative team will take even more of a damn the torpedoes approach than they...
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    mil/News/News/Article/2347968/damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-ahead-the-navys-first-admiral-was-a-hispanic-hero/ "'Damn the Torpedoes – Full Speed Ahead': The Navy’s first...
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  • Parke Puterbaugh said the album features Petty's best lyrics and is like a cross between Full Moon Fever and Damn the Torpedoes (1979), and much better...
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    Tamara Moser, "Damn the Torpedoes:" A Short History of U.S. Naval Mines Countermeasures, 1777–1991, Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington...
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