The Tom Petty Project

Let’s talk about the lyrics to this one first. Tom tells author Paul Zollo, “You don’t have a lot of room to write a story in a song. So you have to be economical with your lines.” and we’ve remarked on that on so many occasions with Tom’s story songs - he usually gives us brief flashes of narrative before either zooming out, changing the POV or switching to a characters thoughts rather than their actions. This one is a pretty tight, compact three act play though and Tom’s economy works really well.

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I was never able to find the thing that makes a person love Radiohead. I know they're brilliant, but I've accepted that they're also just not for me.

However, Thom Yorke is ALWAYS worth listening to when he speaks about the industry.

(Starts at the 2:30 mark)

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