“I can tell the whole wide world to shove it”: Tom Petty’s ‘Damn the Torpedoes’ turns 40

Over at The Ringer, I wrote about the 40th anniversary of Damn The Torpedoes, the great LP where Tom Petty’s withering, wonderful writing and highly-advanced capacity for umbrage met the influence of punk rock and the intense ministrations of Jimmy Iovine. Check it out if you feel so inclined!