7/25/2023 0 Comments Tom petty songs![]() ![]() It’s still hard to conceive, just a fabulous thing.” The wistful “End of the Line,” a feel-good salute to taking stock of one’s life, captured the easy camaraderie between the band members, and while the video is hardly groundbreaking, it magnifies the warmth and brotherhood that made the Wilburys such an unlikely, deeply rewarding endeavor. “It was all great,” he said later, adding, “You’re in the best band you’ve seen, with all your heroes who are also your friends. When rock legends Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison teamed up with Tom Petty and ELO leader Jeff Lynne for the fun-loving Traveling Wilburys project, Petty was the little brother in the fictional family they created to give the side project its own mythology. ![]() Petty didn’t have any of these traits.” She went on to date Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch for the next five years. I was confused by his demeanor because, at the time, rock stars were out-of-control, narcissistic, decadent egomaniacs. “He was very soft-spoken and seemed very shy. “Petty was a southern gentleman,” she said. “They were looking for a sexy Alice,” she said in 2013, “so my mom and I went shopping and found a tight pink puff sleeve T-shirt, skintight black jeans … and a pair of kitten heel Mary Janes.” And although Petty in the video makes her life a living hell, eventually serving her up as cake to the rest of his costumed band members, Foley recalled that he couldn’t have been nicer. “I played it 30 times in a row.”Īn up-and-coming actress, Louise Foley, got the part after a series of auditions. “I was knocked out when I saw the final cut,” Petty later said in I Want My MTV. Shot over a weekend at SIR Studios in Hollywood, the Jeff Stein-directed video re-creates the nightmare world of Alice in Wonderland, casting Petty as a slyly menacing Mad Hatter, complete with the singer’s trademark sunglasses, as he torments a terrified Alice. The only Petty clip to be nominated for Video of the Year – losing to Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” – “Don’t Come Around Here No More” found a visual complement to the song’s trippy, quietly unsettling vibe. He may not have liked making music videos, but he left us with some classics. Along the way, you’ll see how an initially resistant Petty learned how to shape an onscreen persona – that of a friendly, impish prankster – which would become his MTV avatar. Here’s a look back at 10 of his most memorable videos. “I wasn’t happy the way videos started to exploit women. “I knew it would cheapen our long-term play,” Petty said. ![]() And credit him this: He resisted the popular trend to just feature hot babes in his videos. No matter their misgivings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were one of the best video bands of the Eighties and Nineties – the singer would end up winning three Moonmen while delivering innovative, funny clips for radio-ready rock songs. They didn’t want to go anywhere near them. “I didn’t much like making videos – the hours were insane,” he admitted in I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. “But I liked the outcome. He didn’t dance, he didn’t have movie-star looks and, most importantly, he couldn’t stand music videos. Tom Petty, who died October 2nd at the age of 66, was not your typical MTV figurehead. But perhaps the most underrated major videomaker of the era was a young man from Gainesville, Florida who perfected an indelible mix of Byrds-ian melody and Stones-like punch on albums like Damn the Torpedoes and Full Moon Fever. Thinking of the musicians who became superstars thanks to MTV, names like Michael Jackson, George Michael, Madonna and Prince come to mind. ![]()
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