It was like nothing I’d ever seen in my life.” “He seemed to glow and walk above the ground. “He stepped out radiant as an angel,” Petty said of Presley in a 2005 interview. Petty’s uncle had invited the young Tom Petty to watch said shoot, and that was when Petty first saw the King of Rock and Roll.
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At that time, Petty’s uncle Earl Jernigan was working on the set of a movie called Follow That Dream in Ocala, Florida, which starred Presley. In the summer of 1961, Petty was not quite 11 years old and living in Gainesville, Florida, where he was born. Wildly enough, we might not have Tom Petty’s music catalog today if it weren’t for a chance encounter with Elvis Presley. But what do we not already know about the singer/songwriter? What nuances are left to be discovered? Read below for five little-known facts about the beloved Tom Petty.
Clearly, the man wore many hats, and he was good at it, too. Petty’s got a very strong voice, of course, but I needed the foil.He was a Heartbreaker, a Traveling Wilbury, a Hall of Famer, a father, and an inspiration. Stan was the lone extrovert in this band of introverts. It really came out very intense, at times remorseful, at times angry but he helped the book immeasurably. And at the beginning of that second day, it began with Stan asking, “Do you mind if I lie on the couch.” I was lucky enough to be the guy taping it when he let a lot of that stuff out. That 20 minutes turned into two days and eight hours. And at the end of 20 minutes, if you tell me to leave, I will leave.
But the last time I tried, I don’t know if he was in a better spot, I reduced it to, “Stan, I will fly down there, rent a car, come to your door for 20 minutes. But, in his own way, he said, I just don’t want to go back there. He referred to my old band as the Del Tacos. Stan said no to the interview between three and four times. But he’s never really opened up about his split with Petty and the band. We know him as a vital member of the classic Heartbreakers lineup. He takes a Sharpie and signs it for me for every Beatle and hands it back to me. And George Harrison looks at me and says, “It’s Brian Jones, back from the dead.” Of course, George knows enough what a man who wants an autograph looks like. They’re all playing but stop because this kid ran into the room with this Beatles magazine. I was wearing this brocade jacket and had long, bushy blonde hair. I’m suddenly in this room holding a magazine. I went to Tom’s then-wife, Jane, and said, “I’m not an autograph-seeking guy but we’re talking about a Beatle.” And she grabbed me, brought me through this hallway and right to the door opening into Tom’s office. The presence of a Beatle is a thick presence. Then you’re at this party and you hear rumblings that George Harrison is in the building. They got me a Beatles magazine from 1965, the year I was born. I went and I gave Tom and his family a copy of an Ann Peebles record. Basically, you’re witnessing the birth of the Traveling Wilburys. You stumble upon George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Petty in Petty’s office, jamming. You’re at Petty’s house at a Christmas party. The classic situation of midlife pinning a person down to the mat.įlash forward to the 1980s. But then, when he left his marriage and moved into a house, by himself, things slowed just long enough that all of that past came right as he’s coming into the pain of not being able to control the well-being of his kids and not being able to control a dialogue with his ex-wife. I think he was invested in being caught in that cycle in part because there was so much movement in it all that the trouble from his past was kept at bay. And he, being the leader of the band, had to do most of the work around it. Over and over and over and over and over. He wrote songs, they recorded those songs, they put a record together with artwork, they released it, and they went out on the road to support it. If anyone is going to think heroin is an option because they know my story of using heroin, I can’t do this.” And I just had to work with him and say, “I think you’re going to come off as a cautionary tale rather than a romantic tale.” But I wanted to show that Tom Petty is a man who lived the bulk of his life in the album cycle. The first thing he said to me on the subject is “I am very concerned that talking about this is putting a bad example out there for young people. And he hasn’t ever spoken about this before.
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