![]() Petty was both a musician and obsessive fan, one who met his childhood heroes and lived out the fantasies of countless young rock lovers. In the early 1980s, he was again at war with MCA, this time over the label’s plans to charge extra money, a dollar higher than the standard $8.98, for his album “Hard Promises.” He again prevailed. He eventually reached a new deal with MCA, for better terms. Stating that he would not be “bought and sold like a piece of meat,” he self-financed what became “Damn the Torpedoes” and declared bankruptcy rather than allowing his label, MCA, to release it. In 1979, he was enraged when his record label was sold and his contract transferred. Petty didn’t just sing about not backing down, he lived it. I think it’s really important that you believe in yourself, first of all. “I think faith is very important just to get through life. “It’s sort of the classic theme of a lot of the work I’ve done,” he told The Associated Press in 1989. 1 did not come until 2014 and “Hypnotic Eye.” As a songwriter, he focused often on daily struggles and the will to overcome them, most memorably on “Refugee,” ″Even the Losers” and “I Won’t Back Down.” Petty’s albums included “Damn the Torpedoes,” ″Hard Promises” and “Full Moon Fever,” although his first No. He was great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.” Ringo Starr, featured in the video for “I Won’t Back Down,” tweeted “God bless Tom Petty.” Eric Clapton issued a statement that Petty was “such a huge part of our musical history, there’ll never be another like him.” Bob Dylan, a longtime friend, tweeted “I thought the world of Tom. He was a beloved member of the rock community and musicians sent their condolences. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2002, praised them as “durable, resourceful, hard-working, likeable and unpretentious.” The Gainesville, Florida, native with the shaggy blond hair and gaunt features was loved for his melodic hard rock, nasally vocals and down-to-earth style. Usually backed by the Heartbreakers, Petty broke through in the 1970s and went on to sell more than 80 million records. With a little kid, that’s a lot of time.” This tour will take me away for four months. I don’t want to spend my life on the road. I have a granddaughter now I’d like to see as much as I can. ![]() We didn't get pigeonholed into a genre or a fad the songs hold up to me and still sound true.“I’m thinking it may be the last trip around the country,” Petty told Rolling Stone last year. And I think the songs are not in any kind of genre-it's not New Wave or grunge or whatever, it's just rock 'n' roll done really well. ![]() Hopefully, that's the beauty of good music. “Which I don't agree with, but when I hear them on the radio now, I'm really proud of the recording and the songcraft and the timelessness. “In fact, he said, ‘I don't need to hear any more songs, we've got the two we need, the rest doesn't matter,'” recalls Campbell. It was the embryonic demos of “Refugee” and “Here Comes My Girl” that made Iovine so excited about producing the album to begin with, and so confident of the band’s impending megastardom. ![]() I wrote the music pretty much as the record stands and gave those tapes to Tom, and he wrote these incredible words and made the songs what they are.” We'd written a lot of songs before, but that one just had some magic. Just watch that one go.’ ‘Refugee’ is one of the first songs that Tom and I wrote that really, really was huge. They were going, ‘You guys have done it now. “I remember even everybody in the room, like the whole crew, staff, and the girl at the front desk all came in. The nitpicker-in-chief was producer Jimmy Iovine, who made the band work and rework songs over and over-Campbell claims they may have spent two weeks on the snare sound for “Refugee” alone, but the result was a breakthrough hit from the moment the final version was played back in the studio. And that's why it sounds so pristine, but it wasn't fun.” We went through a lot of tuning the drums endlessly, trying different guitars and amps-getting so nitpicky about every little nuance of the sound. “We didn't have our studio chops, and that was very frustrating because we kept thinking we had it. “It was not an easy record to make, but it paid off 'cause it came out and it really has an amazing sound and it jumps out of the radio when you hear it,” Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell tells Apple Music. In between, he and his band were put through the wringer by a producer who would go on to become a mogul, determined to spin Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ bar-band charm and penchant for classic hooks into platinum. Six months after, he was one of the biggest rock stars in America thanks to a handful of radio staples that would prove as enduring as any ever written. Six months before he released his third album, Tom Petty filed for bankruptcy. ![]()
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