Screenwriting From Iowa

Now I’m walking this street on my own  But she’s with me everywhere I go  Yeah I found an angel, I found my place  I can only thank God it was not too late Tom Petty/Angel Dream I’ll round out a couple of weeks of posts centered around Tom Petty with a quote pulled from […]

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“Elvis Presley kicked off my love of music. That was the dream I followed.” Tom Petty Just two days ago Tom Petty helped me solve a mystery that I’d been curious about for several decades.  It’d had to do with the day when Petty was 11-year old and introduced to Elvis Presely by his Uncle Earl. […]

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Well some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown Learning to Fly, lyrics by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne “The people who make it and make it as long as [Tom] Petty has made it have to have some kind of rocket fuel driving them. I get the sense from […]

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Well some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown Learning to Fly, lyrics by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne “The people who make it and make it as long as [Tom] Petty has made it have to have some kind of rocket fuel driving them. I get the sense from […]

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“Inspiration is never really very far away if you look for it. It’s all around you, you know…. When a song comes, it’s kind of magical. You know you’re picking up some kind of signal.” Tom Petty Interview with Charlie Rose in 1999 Here’s how Petty said he wrote the song Wilflowers: “I just took […]

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I’ve listened to more Tom Petty songs in the past week than I have in any week over the past 20 years. I didn’t even know the song I Forgive It All (2016) existed until yesterday and it’s already in my top ten all-time Tom Petty songs. He performed it with members of the band (Mudcrutch) […]

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One of the great things about the arc of Tom Petty’s career is he got to have an entire musical experience that’s almost impossible to do these days. He learned to play guitar as a teenager and worked hard on his craft, had a regional following in Florida, and after a decade of performing landed […]

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Well she was an American girl Raised on promises She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there Was a little more to life Tom Petty/ American Girl You’ll probably never watch a double feature one night of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Silence of the Lambs (1991), but one thing that connects those movies together is […]

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I got my own way of talkin’ But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from Tom Petty/ Southern Accents “The reason to make it in Florida was to make it out of Florida.” Warren Zanes Petty: The Biography  The Beatles had Hamburg to refine their sound, Tom Petty had Gainesville. When […]

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You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won’t back down I Won’t Back Down written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lyne I wrote [I Won’t Back Down] with Jeff Lynne. We wrote it in the studio while we were mixing another song. And it came very quickly. And I was […]

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