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Lastisbest
Love this track and this album - what a shame some of these special guys had short lives.
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TheGreatChupon
Tom Petty: "It started with Bob Dylan saying, 'I want to write a song about a guy named Tweeter. And it needs somebody else.' I said, 'The Monkey Man.' And he says, 'Perfect, "Tweeter and the Monkey Man."' And he said, 'Okay, I want to write the story and I want to set it in New Jersey.' I was like, 'Okay, New Jersey.' And he was like, 'Yeah, we could use references to Bruce Springsteen titles.' He clearly meant it as praise. We weren't trying to knock anybody, and there's not much of it in there anyway. So we sat and wrote the song. The English guys [George Harrison and Jeff Lynne] left, actually. It was the only song that they were like, 'This is just too American. We're out on this one.' So the two of us just sat there for most of the afternoon, and then we edited it down the next day."
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