TOM PETTY DOCUMENTARY MOVIE
The movie focuses on the creatively fruitful period from 1993 to 1995, during which Petty made his acclaimed 1994 studio effort Wildflowers and recorded many other songs that weren't initially released on the album. The new documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers, which premiered this past March as part of the virtual South by Southwest Film Festival, will get its theatrical release as a global screening event on October 20 - coinciding with what would've been Tom Petty's 71st birthday. “He’ll laugh and be sweet and not be conceited about it, but it really is true.Inaudible Films/Warner Music Entertainment/Trafalger Releasing “I pretty much credit Tom with my solo career,” Nicks said. “And during the tour, Tom gave Stevie a sheriff’s badge that was sterling silver with diamonds, and it said: “Honorary Heartbreaker.” “Several years before Tom passed away, Stevie came on a tour with us and played tambourine and sang back-up,” says Tench (who is currently working on his second solo album and is always in touch with his old bandmates).
It gave me a new lease on life – if Tom Petty thinks I can do it, then I guess I can.” You just need to go back to your house and sit in front of your piano and start writing.’ Something about the conversation really hit me. "And he just flat out, in the Tom Petty swamp dog way, said: ‘I’m not going to help you write a song, because you are, in my opinion, Stevie, one of the premiere songwriters of our time. I asked if he would help me write a song. Tom was playing in town, and we went to dinner the night before. Nicks told me: “I had been in and out of rehab and I was really down. When 15 years later Nicks asked Petty to write her another song, the circumstances were much different. I wish the song was more recognised as Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks. “I guess back then that’s not the way it worked. “Why couldn’t Insider and Stop Draggin’ have been on both Hard Promises and Bella Donna?” Tench ponders now. On the single’s label the artist was down as ‘Stevie Nicks (with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers)’. Released in May 1981 as the first single from Nicks’s debut solo album Bella Donna, its old-fashioned groove stood out amid the new wave and synth pop of the time. “I go: ‘Jimmy, you just took the song…’ His comeback was like: ‘This is gonna buy you a house.’ But it pissed me off because it came out at the same time as our single, and I think ours suffered." Petty’s initial reaction was not enthusiastic: “He plays me Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, the same track, with her singing,” Petty said in Runnin’ Down A Dream.
The song’s irresistible swampy groove, punctuated by Campbell’s searing guitar stabs and Tench’s Booker T-like organ fills brought out a sassy repartee between the two singers, even if the duet was concocted in the studio by Iovine. And I think Jimmy thought the song could be a hit for her.” “At the same time, Jimmy Iovine was dating Stevie, though he was keeping it clandestine. “We’d already cut it as a Heartbreakers song, with Tom singing the whole thing,” Tench says. Petty thought he was giving her the song, not the recording. “That’s why I wanted you to write a song,” Nicks said. She jumped at Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, which Petty co-wrote with guitarist Mike Campbell. In 1981, Petty said that out of “terrible guilt” he offered to give Nicks another song instead of Insider, and played her a few castoffs from that year’s Hard Promises sessions. “When she came in the control room, I said: ‘Stevie, I’m really sorry but I don’t want to give you this song.’ And she said: ‘I completely understand.’”Īt this point the story gets hazy. Petty then had to make a tough quick decision.
“And Tom loved the way her voice sounded.
“Stevie naturally gravitated to the harmony part,” Tench recalls. After the track was recorded, Nicks went to Sound City studio in LA, and Petty sang Insider with her.
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