Editing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (section)

==Session work (1970s–2017)==
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During the course of the band, the various members did session work for other notable artists. In 1981, Petty and Campbell wrote the lyrics to "[[Stop Draggin' My Heart Around]]", which was intended as a Heartbreakers song. However, their producer [[Jimmy Iovine]], who was also producing [[Stevie Nicks]], suggested it be turned into a duet with her, and the band agreed, so the song ended up on her album ''[[Bella Donna (album)|Bella Donna]]''.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|last=Wiser|first=Carl|date=November 15, 2003|title=Mike Campbell: Songwriter Interviews|url=https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/mike-campbell|access-date=December 24, 2020|website=Songfacts|language=en}}</ref> All the Heartbreakers except Ron Blair had performed on the track.

In the mid-1980s, former [[The Eagles|Eagle]] [[Don Henley]] teamed up with Campbell, Tench and Lynch for his 1984 album ''[[Building the Perfect Beast]]''. Campbell wrote a demo version of the track "[[The Boys of Summer (song)|The Boys of Summer]]" and showed it to Petty, who both felt it did not fit ''[[Southern Accents]]'', the album they were working on at the time. Iovine suggested recording it with Henley, with whom they re-recorded it after Henley changed the key.<ref name="auto"/> Henley collaborated with Campbell and Lynch for his 1989 album ''[[The End of the Innocence (album)|The End of the Innocence]]'', with the two Heartbreakers producing it alongside the likes of [[Danny Kortchmar]] and [[Bruce Hornsby]]. Campbell again wrote one of the hits from the album, "[[The Heart of the Matter (song)|The Heart of the Matter]]".

In 1986, [[Bob Dylan]] wrote and recorded the track "[[Band of the Hand (song)|Band of the Hand]]" as the theme song for the [[Paul Michael Glaser]] [[Band of the Hand|film of the same title]]. On the recording, Dylan is backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, with a group of backing singers including Stevie Nicks, and the track is credited to "Bob Dylan and the Heartbreakers".

Stan Lynch went on to produce Henley's 2000 album ''[[Inside Job (Don Henley album)|Inside Job]]'' and 2015 album ''[[Cass County (album)|Cass County]]''. He also contributed to the Eagles' 1994 reunion album, ''[[Hell Freezes Over]]'', playing percussion and having a hand in its production.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Hell Freezes Over |others=Eagles |year=1994 |type=CD booklet |publisher=Geffen Records |id=24725}}</ref>

Lynch and Campbell played alongside Henley on [[Warren Zevon]]'s 1987 album ''[[Sentimental Hygiene]]''.

Mike Campbell played slide guitar on "[[6th Avenue Heartache]]", released in 1996 by [[the Wallflowers]]. He recorded his guitar part without even meeting the band.

In the mid-1990s, members of the Heartbreakers teamed up to perform on [[Johnny Cash]]'s ''[[American Recordings (album)|American Recordings]]'' series of albums. The entire band played on ''[[Unchained (Johnny Cash album)|Unchained]]'', save for Lynch, who had left in 1994. For ''[[American III: Solitary Man|Volume III]]'', only Campbell and Petty contributed, the latter performing a duet with Cash on a cover of "[[I Won't Back Down]]". Tench and Campbell then contributed to ''[[American IV: The Man Comes Around|Volume IV]]'', ''[[American V: A Hundred Highways|Volume V]]'', and ''[[American VI: Ain't No Grave|Volume VI]]''. In March 2014, Cash's son had hinted that four or five more American albums may be released.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/26/johnny-cash-four-or-five-more-albums-in-the-works-says-son|title=Johnny Cash: 'four or five more albums in the works,' says his son|first=Phil|last=Hebblethwaite|newspaper=The Guardian |date=March 26, 2014|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>