“It came in piece by piece,” said Tom Petty of his 1981 hit “The Waiting.” Petty already had a chorus in place, and kept playing it on repeat for weeks, but the verses and bridge took even longer to ...
Cameron Crowe's directorial debut, 1983's Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, is coming to theaters this fall. It's been fully restored and also includes 20 additional minutes of footage starring ...
The tune went on to challenge the norms for music videos with a storytelling approach that was unique for the time ...
“Of all the songs I've written, I think I get the most feedback about that song,” Tom Petty said of “I Won’t Back Down” in the Peter Bogdanovich documentary Runnin’ Down a Dream. “And it is a personal ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK DOWN ...