McCartney Times

For the first time in a while, Tom Petty seemed to be in a happy place in the late 1980s. After having to go through his house being burned down and the disastrous sessions for Southern Accents, his friendship with rock legends like George Harrison led to him becoming an honorary legend in The Traveling Wilburys, playing bass alongside the croon of Roy Orbison. In the background, Petty was also working hard with ELO leading man Jeff Lynne producing his classic album, Full Moon Fever. Being his first major outing without the rest of the Heartbreakers, Petty’s first proper solo album brought him some of his biggest songs to date, from the bad boy attitude of ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream’ to ‘Free Fallin’. While it was clear that ‘I Won’t Back Down’ was already a good song when starting the sessions, it needed a little help from The Beatles to get it right.

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