![]() ![]() Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'Refugee' VideoĪfter the garage-rock approach of the first two Heartbreakers albums, Iovine's method through the band for a loop. We got those two songs, we got an album.' And he was right." Then they hired Jimmy Iovine, who was on the rise after engineering Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town, and producing Patti Smith's Easter. Iovine listened to "Refugee" and "Here Comes My Girl" on the tape and, Campbell recalled, "'I don't care what else you do. The band's manager, Elliot Roberts, heard the demo and thought it was on the right track. I don't think he saw it the same way as me, where the chorus would go. "I remember writing really quickly to his tape," Petty recalled in Paul Zollo's Conversations With Tom Petty. ![]() He put that and a few other new songs on a cassette and gave it to Petty, who recognized it as something special. Realizing it was "more than just an exercise," Campbell added a bridge and built a demo using a DrumDrops track, rhythm and lead guitar and bass. Then he added two more chords - D major followed by a B major - that led back into the main progression. So he put one of the DrumDrops beats on one track, created a progression around three chords - F-sharp minor, E major and A major - and used it as a bed over which he'd play lead. Julian from Oakland, ArTom Petty & the Heartbreakers hold the record for most appearances by any musical act on Saturday Night Live.Inspired by a new Gibson Les Paul gold top and Albert King's 1966 Stax classic "Oh, Pretty Woman," Campbell wanted to practice soloing in the key of F-sharp minor.Why do we sometimes live like refugees when we don't always have to? F the establishment! Brian from Meriden, CtClassic American rock.Jim from Dallas, TxDue to the Congressional Black Congress, this song is being changed to "Evacuee" to be politically correct.John from Boston, MaI always thought of Refugee as a song talking to a girl, not liberating social commentary.I just remeber when they got to the part that says "revel in your abandon", one said to the other "what the heck does that mean?" It was wierd to hear them doing a rock song like this anyway. Jay from Atlanta, GaAlvin and the Chipmunks did a cover of this.Patrick from Tallapoosa, GaI remember a local TV station here in GA used the intro when doing a story on the Cuban refugees back in the mid-90s.Joshua from Twin Cities, MnMelissa Etheridge diid a pretty good remake of this a few years ago.He thought I was making fun of him because he fled hurricane Katrina. Anthony from Dallas, TxMe and a friend got into a fight when I played this song in the car.Melanie from Seattle, WaThis song rocks, I love Tom Petty.Olivia from Boston, MaThis song rocks almost as much as Tom Petty himself!.Llyle from London, United KingdomAwesome lyrics.Took her to her first Petty concert when she was 8. She fell asleep every night to that tape. Beth from Green Bay, WiMy daughter sang this song when she was 3, "You don't have to live like a refuge head!" She knew all of the songs on the VH tape of his videos.but the main riff is lifted from the stones satisfaction. Johnny from Claxton, Gait's a great song.Johnny Depp was even in one of his videos. Chris from Norman, OkTom petty and the heartbreakers were huge on videos.It takes some time usually before you fully understand what’s going on in a song – or maybe what led up to it.” I wasn’t so conscious of it then, but I can look back and see what was happening. I was so angry with the whole system that I think that had a lot to do with the tone of the Damn the Torpedoes album. I wound up in a huge row with the record company when ABC Records tried to sell our contract to MCA Records without us knowing about it, despite a clause in our contract that said they didn’t have the right to do that. ![]()
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