Single 2021 Keep a Little Soul (Outtake, 1982). “American Girl”Īfter Petty’s initial bands like the Epics and Mudcrutch disbanded (Mudcrutch only released one 1975 single, “Depot Street,” that didn’t chart), he began to pursue a solo career. Popular Singles and EPs by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Angel Dream (No.
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But what about more than just a couple? See if you can name all the ones we’ve listed here below. All Tom Petty Songs A Face In The Crowd Full Moon Fever A Higher Place Wildflowers A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own Full Moon Fever A One Story Town. Likely, you can rattle off a few from the top of your head. The 12 songs that defined Tom Petty’s career. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Song list A Woman in Love (Its Not Me) (1981) All You Can Carry (2014) American Dream Plan B (2014) American Girl (1977). Thankfully, we still have all the music he recorded and left behind for his fans.
So, when we lost Petty in 2017 after his surprising passing, many were left floored and saddened. Of the meeting, Petty said, “Elvis glowed.”
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Heck, he met Elvis on a movie set at 10 years old and fell in love with rock and roll.
He’s as much a man of the country as he is of the bright lights. He writes lyrics that live in pop lore and poetry. That lyrical universality has contributed to the song’s status as both a cover-band standard and one of Petty’s most covered tunes - including, in a roundabout way, by one Sam Smith, who had to add Petty and co-writer Jeff Lynne to the credits for his massive hit “Stay With Me,” because its melodic similarities to “I Won’t Back Down” are undeniable (even if Smith claimed, somewhat outrageously given the song’s standing in the American rock canon, that he’d never heard the song before).The artist, who was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1950, has a voice that floats and pierces. Petty’s signature straightforward, direct lyrics make “I Won’t Back Down” an all-purpose anthem of resilience and struggle against oppression, meaning it’s become a common soundtrack for political campaigns, sports programming, and protests of all stripes - and had a second life as a radio hit in the patriotic aftermath of 9/11. Written after an arsonist attempted to burn down Petty’s home in 1987, “I Won’t Back Down” is a response to a specific event that has become an iconic American song in large part for the malleability of that response. No less than Hillary Clinton played “American Girl” at rallies in 2008, perhaps neglecting the ultimately prophetic line, “Ain’t it so painful / when something that is so close / is still so far out of reach.” Had this been the only song Petty ever recorded, it might be enough to cement his reputation.
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It’s been used in TV and movies many, many times, recently closing out the Emmy-winning first season of The Handmaid’s Tale. “American Girl” has come to stand for a certain kind of yearning Americana. (Despite all of this, the song didn’t perform all that well on the US charts, never quite breaking into the top 100. With its nervously jangling guitar riff and its classic opening couplet (“She was an American girl / raised on promises”), the song declares its intentions almost immediately - something Petty was particularly skilled at.īut “American Girl” also gets at the heart of Petty’s great thematic concern: the lives of ordinary people who can’t escape either their circumstances or the perhaps foolhardy dreams they can’t give up. If Petty’s entire legacy were somehow reduced to just one song, it would probably be “American Girl,” the closing track (and second single) off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ self-titled debut.
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