Into The Great Wide Open (track) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1991
From the album Into The Great Wide Open (track #3)


Into The Great Wide Open appears on the following album(s) by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers:
- Into The Great Wide Open (track #3) (this album) (1991)
- Greatest Hits (track #16) (compilation) (1993)
- Anthology: Through The Years (track #30) (compilation) (2000)
- Playback (track #45) (1995)
- The Best Of Everything (The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016) (track #31) (compilation) (2019)
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