Tom Petty's Wildflowers II with Adria Petty
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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Is Everyone's Life Not the Same as That?
There was a time when I was about seven, when Dan the Torpedos came out. After that record came out, my father's mother died and he didn't go to the funeral. Because he was famous because he would have overshadowed her life as a churchgoer. My dad was so down to earth that we would go to Florida every year and now have no one for a few months. We'd clean our own house and be with my uncle and normal people that they grew up with. He loved it. There was a lot of songwriting and a lot of inspiration drawn from that time at the beach in Florida. That's a really special place.
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