"Breakdown" is the first single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers are an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty , Mike Campbell , Benmont Tench , , Ron Blair and Stan Lynch...

' self-titled debut album. It peaked at #40 in the United States and in Canada.

Single track listings

• "Breakdown" b/w "The Wild One Forever"
  Shelter 62006 (1976)
• "Breakdown" b/w "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)"
  Shelter 62008 (1977)

Chart performance

Chart (1978)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	40
Canadian RPM Top Singles	40

In concert

Played live, Petty sometimes incorporated "Breakdown" with Ray Charles

Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

' "Hit the Road Jack

Hit the Road Jack

"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by rhythm and bluesman Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an a capella demo sent to Art Rupe, available on the Memory Pain CD vol. 2, Specialty Records SPCD-7027-2. It became famous after it was recorded by singer-pianist Ray Charles. It hit number...

".

Album appearances

• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976)
• FM original soundtrack
  FM (soundtrack)
  FM is the original soundtrack to the 1978 film FM. The soundtrack won the 1979 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.-Track listing:#"FM " - Steely Dan – 4:52#"Night Moves" - Bob Seger – 3:27...
  
   (1978)
• Greatest Hits
  Greatest Hits (Tom Petty album)
  Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1993. It is Petty's best selling album to date and was certified 10x Platinum by the RIAA on November 13, 2003. The single "Mary Jane's Last Dance" became one of Petty's most popular songs reaching #14 on the...
  
   (1993)
• Playback
  Playback (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers box set)
  Playback is a box set compilation by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1995. It contains popular album tracks, B-sides, previously unreleased outtakes, and early songs by Petty's previous band Mudcrutch....
  
   (1995)
• Anthology: Through the Years
  Anthology: Through The Years
  Anthology: Through the Years is a double compilation album featuring the best of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It contains a new song, "Surrender", written by Petty during the You're Gonna Get It! sessions, but recorded in 2000 especially for this release...
  
   (2000)
• Mojo Tour 2010
  Mojo Tour 2010
  -Musicians:*Tom Petty - lead vocals, 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, percussion*Mike Campbell - lead guitar, slide guitar, 12-string guitar, mandolin, electric sitar...
  
   (2010) - Live Version
• Pack Up The Plantaition

Cover versions

"Breakdown" was covered by Suzi Quatro

Suzi Quatro

Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor.She scored a string of hit singles in the 1970s that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland, and had a recurring role on the popular American sitcom Happy Days.-Music:Quatro began her...

 on her album If You Knew Suzi

If You Knew Suzi

If You Knew Suzi... is the sixth regular studio album by Suzi Quatro, released at the end of 1978, with a 1979 copyright date . The credits show it to be a multinational production: tracks were recorded in Cologne, Germany, Paris, France, and Glendale, California...

 (1978) and by Grace Jones

Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

 on her album Warm Leatherette (1980). For Grace Jones' recording, Petty wrote a third verse:

It's OK if you must go

I'll understand if you don't

You say goodbye right now

I'll still survive somehow

Why should we let this drag on?

• The Song was covered by he Foo Fighters while on tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...