Yes totally. I hope one day a woman looks at me just like Stevie does Tom. Wishful thinking maybe but I think it will happen for all of us. Well the true lovers and dreamers at least!
For me personally what makes this song so great is it tells the lesser known story of someone who gets left behind in a failed relationship when one person is ready to move on before the other is, the third verse especially covers how watching that same person in a relationship later and how they treat their new significant other so much better than they ever did them, that burning, cutting pain from the realization the X had the potential to be a better person they just didn't see you as worth the effort.
This was mentioned in the Tom Petty Biography I read. Initially, he did write this for S. Nicks. However, the song was too good and he told her and she said “ keep it”. Write a different song for me. So he did, “ stop dragging my heart around”. Petty didn’t say he had a personal attachment to the song, only that it was too good. But, I think he did feel it had the mirror effect on his first wife, Jane Benyo. He was only 17 when they met.
One of the best DUETS EVER RECORDED....WE love and miss you, Tom....r.i.p...you have us all so, so much. Thank you. And thanks to Stevie for singing on this haunting ballad...it's perfect.
This song wrecks me. I am HIV posivtive and there are parts of the song that make me feel that sadness it brings me every day....I guess looking back at the mistake I made. but I know it's about a lover trying to think of what her new Lover is like to her and why he is a better man. From all your comments....Stevie really really loved Tom....his death just must be a horror. but isn't it great that the song made it to Tom's album, even though it isn't on Bella Donna? I love you both......we will remember the song always. love to you.
@@yolandareis8309 no this went on Toms Hard Promises album. Originally he was giving it to Stevie but kept it for himself and Stop Dragging My Heart Around went on Stevie's Bella Donna.
She is so smitten with him, but he never seems to cross that line with her. A deep affection and friendship, but that's all I see from him. Both very talented!
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Tom actually originally wrote this song Stevie Nicks, however, he liked it so much he told her “I can’t give you this song”. Ultimately, he wrote her; “Stop dragging my heart around”. I read three Tom Petty biographies!
One of my favourits. That was when Stevie said she rather wanted to be in the Heartbreakers than in Fleetwood Mac. Tom said `No girls in the band`. I bet she`d have broken their hearts one by one !
and thats what pissed off Stan Lynch as he did NOT and makes no bones about it, want to give this song STDMHA to Stevie. It was a TPHB song and Stan wanted it. I dont think that Stan liked Stevie's intermeddling in the band...
I could just take a bath in this song! It's so beautiful and you can feel the emotion. Tom Petty always was, always is and always will be my favorite singer/songwriter of all time. So talented and one of the coolest guys ever!
Agreed probably the most down to earth icon and had more hits than almost anyone everyone can relate to the music him and the heartbreakers wrote, I’ve always said his music catalog is the soundtrack of life
She states today the love of her life was joe Walsh She did accompany tom on the bob Dylan tour supposedly cuz his wife couldn't who was her friend but somewhere in there they loved each other
This is a great duet by two singers who had a hell of a lot of chemistry together. You could see the spark, that's all I can say. RIP Tom Petty; I can't believe I am saying that. The music world is poorer today by his untimely passing, but he leaves a treasure of fantastic songs and performances, like this one.
Hope I'm not out of line here but does anyone get the idea from this video that Stevie is totally in love with Tom (look at the way she looks at him) and he is totally in love with the music. Now that is a real heartbreaker
Lol that was my first thought but she is paying close attention to him to really match him and she knocked this song out so beautifully. There is a lot of just pure talent in the way she watches him and that is worth crediting.
@@robbybobbybobirwin You're right. She does this when she harmonizes. It looks like love though when she looks at Tom in this video. I think she did love him. There may even have been an affair, but she hasn't said so that I know of. She's spoken about her relationships with other lovers who were famous musicians: Lindsey, of course, Mick Fleetwood, Don Henley, and Joe Walsh. I read an interview in which she said she loved Joe Walsh above all of them. I'd love to know the full story of each relationship, because I'm such an admirer of hers. However, it has nothing to do with why I love her music and it's just curiosity. I have no expectation or right to more of her life story than she cares to share. Back to your original point (sorry I digressed), there's a great YT video in which she and Sheryl Crow sing Strong Enough. They watch one another as she watched Tom Petty in this one. I think to harmonize perfectly.
I have see Stevie on stage look at Lindsey the same way at times they were hating each other. I think she can get lost in the moment of the song and for that moment, she probably did love who ever she was connecting with on stage.
I love this song! Tom and Stevie are so great together. She always looks at him while they sing...but he doesn't really seem interested. He's so cool. Love him. Love them both.
She does that with most people she duets with. She makes it a personal connection. It’s part of her performance style and her genuine personality. Don Henley, Lindsey Buckingham, even Harry Styles.
In 1981 Petty tells Melody Maker, “When I wrote that song, I wrote it very quickly, I mean maybe in ten, 15 minutes. I just wrote it all down on paper and then I just picked up the guitar and tried to sing each line out. It took me maybe an hour to do that - it don’t happen every day, fans! But the lyrics were real quick”.
You've got a dangerous background And everything you've dreamed of Yeah you're the Dark Angel It don't show when you break up And I'm the one who oughta' know I'm the one left in the dust Yeah I'm the broken-hearted fool Who was never quite enough I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire And I've had to live with some hard promises I've crawled through the briars, I'm an insider It's a circle of deception It's a hall of strangers It's a cage without a key You can feel the danger And I'm the one who oughta' know I'm the one you couldn't trust I'm the lonely silent one I'm the one left in the dust (Chorus) I'll bet you're his masterpiece I'll bet you're his self-control Yeah you'll become his legacy His quiet world of white and gold And I'm the one who oughta know I'm the one you left to rust Not one of your twisted friends I'm the one you couldn't love
This song takes your breath away! Tom and Stevie's voices in perfect harmony. Learning To Fly and Insider are masterpieces of the heart! Rest well sweet Tom! God Bless.
Stevie is the only woman Tom had a duet with. Their music will go down in history as a haunting ballad. (thanks R grant!) Love you Tom and the Heartbreakers.
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
i was probably 14 when couldn't stop playing and watching the video. i was running around with seniors and really started party and having a blast. those were good times. a lot of those friends are in touch shape these days. life was so good and easy in those moments.... when we thought they were tough and we knew it all. turn 40 and you realize that you don't know shit! what would be do without the music people... it gets us by.
same album- the song You Can Still Change Your Mind, with Stevie singing harmony is also a tearjerker. best Petty/Heartbreakers album period. all of them great though but def in a groove at this point. her relationship with him was major writing credits!
I used to be in 'awe' over this song. But it was ruined for me, but some careless, evil man..who toyed with my heart so much...that I don't even remember the good anymore...well barely. It was all based on a lie- a lie that went on for 4 years, and changed what good I was. But now, I'm trying to find whom I was at one time. And it's getting there. Greet song- but too hurtful for me to even love again. It is funny, how just one "man" (hardly) or person; can make you rethink your music, the stuff you once loved in life...even who you are.
Three of my favorite songs by a duet are by these two. Hard Promises (Insider), I will Run to You and Stop Draggin. I've seen Stevie in concert twice, same with Tom Petty. Each time I have this wild fantasy that the other one will show up as a special guest. What a dreamer.
Stevie asked Tom to write her a song but when they sang it the first time he took the lead and they both knew he had to keep it for himself. He had already written Stop Dragging My Heart Around and gave it to her instead. From this point forward she was smitten and wanted to be a Heartbreaker but they always told her no girls allowed. I think it took 25 years for her to get the honorary title. Tom would be so touched that she invited Mike C to join FM. I imagine it was a very welcome diversion for him.
Oh no, it was not like that at all. When they first got together it was through an outside source wanting them to make music together. She was critical of Tom because she was in love with Buckingham. She made some comment about Tom’s guitar playing not being good enough or some crap. That pissed Tom off. They make good music together, but it wasn’t all a bed of roses. I remember the interviews back then, they were both on top of the game but Stevie was looking for another place to get away from Buckingham.
Stevie just feels so much when she sings. Tom is such a great guy. Miss him have been a fan since dam the torpedoes. There will never be a better duet ever. Seen both in 1981 Sacramento State fair
It's so hard to ponder that another legend from my teenage years gone. I loved this song it was my favorite all time duet especially when I got into trouble back in the days. So thanks Tom Petty for the awesome music that I have listened to for the last 30 some odd years. Rest In Peace Tom Petty another legend gone 😢😢😢😢😢😢😇😇😇😇😇
Love this song, just heard it for the first time on sirius a couple of months ago and fell in love with it. Stevie and Tom are always great together, the chemistry is great
Beautiful song. I've been a fan of Tom for as long as I can remember thanks to my dad. His music has gotten me through the darkest time of my life & for that I am forever grateful. & he's still rockin. Amazing man, amazing music.
Hey younguns! She wasn't the only one in love with that man. I've been in love with him since the first time I heard "Breakdown". I bought the album the next day and I've bought every one since. He grew up not too far from where I live now. "in love" might be an exaggeration but I surely love his voice and his songs.
How is it possible I’ve never heard this before? There’s no such thing as a perfect song but this comes so close. Their vocal harmonies alone are fabulous. Every human with a heart can relate to the lyrics. And the stripped down instrumentals make it ... perfect. Someone else commented that they wished someone would look at them the way Stevie looked at Tom. I had a woman look at me that way for a few years and will always regret not doing whatever it would’ve taken to keep her with me.
If you liked the Netflix documentary, the book "Petty" by Warren Zanes is excellent. Petty's story is so deep and has so many twists and turns. But man, he never backs down. So to speak.
You've got a dangerous background And everything you've dreamed of Yeah you're the Dark Angel It don't show when you break up and I'm the one who oughta know Im the one left in the dust Yeah I'm the broken hearted fool Who was never quite enough [Chorus:] I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire And I've had to live with some hard promises I've crawled through the briars -- I'm an insider It's a circle of deception It's a hall of strangers It's a cage without a key You can feel the danger And I'm the one who oughta know I'm the one you couldn't trust I'm the lonely silent one I'm the one left in the dust [Chorus] I'll bet you're his masterpiece I'll bet you're his self-control Yeah you'll become his legacy His quiet world of white and gold And I'm the one who oughta know I'm the one you left to rust Not one of your twisted friends I'm the one you couldn't love [Chorus]
Such a brilliant analogy of things left unsaid.. Brilliant Mr. Pettty.. It's a cage without a key You can feel the danger And I'm the one who oughta know I'm the one you couldn't trust I'm the lonely silent one I'm the one left in the dust
The only musician I bursted into tears when hearing of his death Tom is a one in a kind and blessed us so much with his talent and Stevie compliments him perfect on this song
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
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This is way too overlooked. This is their best collaboration, hands down.
powerful, more so than "Stop draggin' my heart..."
Very much so!! Back when Stevie was the best harmony singer in the biz.
No doubt. This is the first song that leaps to mind when I think of a Tom/Stevie duet.
NO NAME totally agree
I really like this too. I also like their collaboration on The Apartment.
I wish someone would look at me the way Stevie looks at Tom
or the way Tom looks at her!
Right?!
Yes totally. I hope one day a woman looks at me just like Stevie does Tom. Wishful thinking maybe but I think it will happen for all of us. Well the true lovers and dreamers at least!
yeah me too
Hell I wish I could find someone who looks at me like Stan looks at his drums.
Can we acknowledge Benmont Tench's haunting playing here? Really contributes to the mood.
For me personally what makes this song so great is it tells the lesser known story of someone who gets left behind in a failed relationship when one person is ready to move on before the other is, the third verse especially covers how watching that same person in a relationship later and how they treat their new significant other so much better than they ever did them, that burning, cutting pain from the realization the X had the potential to be a better person they just didn't see you as worth the effort.
From every broken relationship, we learn what not to do in the next.
@@guitardds Hopefully.
❤️😔
this hurt
Beautifully written 👏
I still get chills listening to this, 42 years later.
“It’s a cage without a key” “ his quiet world of white and gold”
Just WOW! Tom Petty loved this song - it was one of his masterpieces!!!!
This was mentioned in the Tom Petty Biography I read. Initially, he did write this for S. Nicks. However, the song was too good and he told her and she said “ keep it”. Write a different song for me. So he did, “ stop dragging my heart around”. Petty didn’t say he had a personal attachment to the song, only that it was too good. But, I think he did feel it had the mirror effect on his first wife, Jane Benyo. He was only 17 when they met.
I agree …. WOW
All the kids are so worried about how Stevie was looking at Lindsey when the real show is how she looked at Tom. RIP 💔
He was her mentor though, supposedly never had a romantic relationship, but it would have been nice eh?
What was he “mentoring” her on exactly? At the point they recorded this Rumours was already one of the best selling records of all time.
If this song doesn't bring you back to a serious heartbreak, you never had one.
Amen
Right back ❤️
Well said...
Amen
One of the best DUETS EVER RECORDED....WE love and miss you, Tom....r.i.p...you have us all so, so much. Thank you. And thanks to Stevie for singing on this haunting ballad...it's perfect.
It just can't be 6 years. So sad.
Great harmony. These two had chemistry. It was real.
"Not one of your twisted friends, I'm the one you couldn't love."
This song wrecks me. I am HIV posivtive and there are parts of the song that make me feel that sadness it brings me every day....I guess looking back at the mistake I made. but I know it's about a lover trying to think of what her new Lover is like to her and why he is a better man. From all your comments....Stevie really really loved Tom....his death just must be a horror. but isn't it great that the song made it to Tom's album, even though it isn't on Bella Donna? I love you both......we will remember the song always. love to you.
No this song is not on Bella Donna
@@yolandareis8309 no this went on Toms Hard Promises album. Originally he was giving it to Stevie but kept it for himself and Stop Dragging My Heart Around went on Stevie's Bella Donna.
DragonsFire yes I know I have both albums.😁
@John Brinkman I just love how music can mean something different to each of us. I wish you a lifetime of great memories, happiness and health! ♥️
Love to you too, John. xo
She is so smitten with him, but he never seems to cross that line with her. A deep affection and friendship, but that's all I see from him. Both very talented!
One of my all time favorites. Two wonderful voices just blend so beautifully.
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
The look on Stevie's face 50 seconds in is timed so perfectly with the lyric being said. Poor Tommy, couldn't see what was right in front of him.
He was married at the time.
Tom actually originally wrote this song Stevie Nicks, however, he liked it so much he told her “I can’t give you this song”. Ultimately, he wrote her; “Stop dragging my heart around”. I read three Tom Petty biographies!
One of my favourits. That was when Stevie said she rather wanted to be in the Heartbreakers than in Fleetwood Mac. Tom said `No girls in the band`. I bet she`d have broken their hearts one by one !
The pain of love and longing. Tom was an amazing poet.
Perfect comment.
perfect
Stevie has a voice of an Angel
She is
and Tom holds God’s pen
Stevie at her absolute finest.
I don't know of another song in her catalog that approaches this
Stunning doesn't begin to describe it here
@@Faninpoose Beauty and the Beast is a masterpiece.
This was not one of the big radio hits like Stop
Dragging my Heart Around but sometimes the lesser known songs are best
and thats what pissed off Stan Lynch as he did NOT and makes no bones about it, want to give this song STDMHA to Stevie. It was a TPHB song and Stan wanted it. I dont think that Stan liked Stevie's intermeddling in the band...
nursewitch1
YES!
This far surpasses Stop Draggin' My Heart Around. Love this!
In the same vein, how did Warren Zevon's worst song, "Werewolves of London", get the most airplay?
I totally agree with you nursewitch1
I could just take a bath in this song! It's so beautiful and you can feel the emotion. Tom Petty always was, always is and always will be my favorite singer/songwriter of all time. So talented and one of the coolest guys ever!
The definition of cool.
@@kennethsizer6217 Absolutely 😎 love you Tom forever, but we will always have your Music 🎶 a Part of you. 💕🎶😎
You and I are on the same page Jani 🙏 RIP Tom, gone but never forgotten
Agreed probably the most down to earth icon and had more hits than almost anyone everyone can relate to the music him and the heartbreakers wrote, I’ve always said his music catalog is the soundtrack of life
God, the way she looks at him...she's so in love. Eat your hearts out, Lindsey and Don.
I agree about Don. I do think there's still a certain spark with Lindsey. No doubt about it, though- this is by far the most beautiful collaboration.
Is there any proof that she ever was? Like did she talk about it in any interviews or anything?
stop assuming romance with everything and everyone. A man and a woman can sometimes legit just be good friends okay.
She was in love with Jimmy Iovine
She states today the love of her life was joe Walsh
She did accompany tom on the bob Dylan tour supposedly cuz his wife couldn't who was her friend but somewhere in there they loved each other
This is a great duet by two singers who had a hell of a lot of chemistry together. You could see the spark, that's all I can say. RIP Tom Petty; I can't believe I am saying that. The music world is poorer today by his untimely passing, but he leaves a treasure of fantastic songs and performances, like this one.
RIP TOM PETTY who with the Florida born Heartbreakers were one of the Greatest of All SOUTHERN ROCK BANDS.
Hope I'm not out of line here but does anyone get the idea from this video that Stevie is totally in love with Tom (look at the way she looks at him) and he is totally in love with the music. Now that is a real heartbreaker
I agree. Lindsey Buckingham was not Stevie Nicks soulmate. It was Tom Petty.
Lol that was my first thought but she is paying close attention to him to really match him and she knocked this song out so beautifully. There is a lot of just pure talent in the way she watches him and that is worth crediting.
@@robbybobbybobirwin You're right. She does this when she harmonizes. It looks like love though when she looks at Tom in this video. I think she did love him. There may even have been an affair, but she hasn't said so that I know of.
She's spoken about her relationships with other lovers who were famous musicians: Lindsey, of course, Mick Fleetwood, Don Henley, and Joe Walsh. I read an interview in which she said she loved Joe Walsh above all of them.
I'd love to know the full story of each relationship, because I'm such an admirer of hers. However, it has nothing to do with why I love her music and it's just curiosity. I have no expectation or right to more of her life story than she cares to share.
Back to your original point (sorry I digressed), there's a great YT video in which she and Sheryl Crow sing Strong Enough. They watch one another as she watched Tom Petty in this one. I think to harmonize perfectly.
I have see Stevie on stage look at Lindsey the same way at times they were hating each other. I think she can get lost in the moment of the song and for that moment, she probably did love who ever she was connecting with on stage.
Yep 😀👍. They did have a passionate love 😘💞 affair!!! Love ❤️ you STAN ❤️ Sincerely Darlene an American Girl who has a thing for drummers ❤️❤️❤️
The Best Duet Ever.!!!
This deserves way more views and likes...
I love it but just found it!
“You’ll become his legacy”
The live 12-string version from Pack up the Plantation is even better! RIP Tom.
Pack up Plantation version sux........
@@jahkgdm: "Not one of your twisted friends" is the line I wait for.
I can't believe I've been listening to Tom petty since I was 14 and now at 43 I discovered this song.
I love this song! Tom and Stevie are so great together. She always looks at him while they sing...but he doesn't really seem interested. He's so cool. Love him. Love them both.
yet he gives her a glimpse here and there. he is an insider
he's also multitasking while she's just singing
she's possibly following him for cues
She was infatuated with him
She does that with most people she duets with. She makes it a personal connection. It’s part of her performance style and her genuine personality. Don Henley, Lindsey Buckingham, even Harry Styles.
Harmony singers always watch their partners face whilst singing. Its about precision and synching depth of emotion.
This is one of the best songs he ever did. And Stevie just makes it absolute and sublime perfection.
In 1981 Petty tells Melody Maker,
“When I wrote that song, I wrote it very quickly, I mean maybe in ten, 15 minutes. I just wrote it all down on paper and then I just picked up the guitar and tried to sing each line out. It took me maybe an hour to do that - it don’t happen every day, fans! But the lyrics were real quick”.
They are magic together...always
❤❤❤
How can one write songs like this and stay a regular joe? Cos he never boasted about anything. Thanks for gems like these
Damn. This song rips me up in the most beautiful way.
You've got a dangerous background
And everything you've dreamed of
Yeah you're the Dark Angel
It don't show when you break up
And I'm the one who oughta' know
I'm the one left in the dust
Yeah I'm the broken-hearted fool
Who was never quite enough
I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire
And I've had to live with some hard promises
I've crawled through the briars, I'm an insider
It's a circle of deception
It's a hall of strangers
It's a cage without a key
You can feel the danger
And I'm the one who oughta' know
I'm the one you couldn't trust
I'm the lonely silent one
I'm the one left in the dust
(Chorus)
I'll bet you're his masterpiece
I'll bet you're his self-control
Yeah you'll become his legacy
His quiet world of white and gold
And I'm the one who oughta know
I'm the one you left to rust
Not one of your twisted friends
I'm the one you couldn't love
Oh Tom! Stevie! So young! Good memories watching this tonight. We are saying our goodbyes to you, Tom. Each in our own way ...
This song takes your breath away! Tom and Stevie's voices in perfect harmony. Learning To Fly and Insider are masterpieces of the heart! Rest well sweet Tom! God Bless.
Stevie is the only woman Tom had a duet with. Their music will go down in history as a haunting ballad. (thanks R grant!) Love you Tom and the Heartbreakers.
Missing Tom Petty.
This brings back so much...I miss the 80s!!!
Whole song breaks my heart but especially the last verse. I totally get it. Damn it, TOM!!!!! hurts hurts hurts. No no no!!!
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Love Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks, both! This is my favorite song they did together.
i was probably 14 when couldn't stop playing and watching the video. i was running around with seniors and really started party and having a blast. those were good times. a lot of those friends are in touch shape these days. life was so good and easy in those moments.... when we thought they were tough and we knew it all. turn 40 and you realize that you don't know shit!
what would be do without the music people... it gets us by.
So underrated wtf.
I've had to live with some hard promises :::I'm the insider⚖💜🇯🇲🎹🌴🎩🎼🇬🇳🌘🎤
Tom wrote with so much pain that we have all felt at one time.
In my opinion the early 80s was the last of the good music
same album- the song You Can Still Change Your Mind, with Stevie singing harmony is also a tearjerker. best Petty/Heartbreakers album period. all of them great though but def in a groove at this point. her relationship with him was major writing credits!
One of my favorite songs, hands down.
Hard Promises album is such a masterpiece. I remember listening to it over and over. Tom Petty was an amazing song writer - genius.
Tom Petty's pinnacle. An absolutely brilliant album
Good Lord, this is such a sad, beautiful song.
I used to be in 'awe' over this song. But it was ruined for me, but some careless, evil man..who toyed with my heart so much...that I don't even remember the good anymore...well barely. It was all based on a lie- a lie that went on for 4 years, and changed what good I was. But now, I'm trying to find whom I was at one time. And it's getting there.
Greet song- but too hurtful for me to even love again.
It is funny, how just one "man" (hardly) or person; can make you rethink your music, the stuff you once loved in life...even who you are.
I've been a fan for 38 years. The music lives on.
Makes me think of the love of my life.... but I wasn't the love of his life
Someone will be lucky to find you, Tina
I like how this video zeros in on every band member. After all the Heartbreakers are part of the band.....
Three of my favorite songs by a duet are by these two. Hard Promises (Insider), I will Run to You and Stop Draggin. I've seen Stevie in concert twice, same with Tom Petty. Each time I have this wild fantasy that the other one will show up as a special guest. What a dreamer.
She did on Houston and sang Stop and insider
Amazingly beautiful ❤❤❤❤
Stevie asked Tom to write her a song but when they sang it the first time he took the lead and they both knew he had to keep it for himself. He had already written Stop Dragging My Heart Around and gave it to her instead. From this point forward she was smitten and wanted to be a Heartbreaker but they always told her no girls allowed. I think it took 25 years for her to get the honorary title. Tom would be so touched that she invited Mike C to join FM. I imagine it was a very welcome diversion for him.
Oh no, it was not like that at all. When they first got together it was through an outside source wanting them to make music together. She was critical of Tom because she was in love with Buckingham. She made some comment about Tom’s guitar playing not being good enough or some crap. That pissed Tom off. They make good music together, but it wasn’t all a bed of roses. I remember the interviews back then, they were both on top of the game but Stevie was looking for another place to get away from Buckingham.
In the 2nd pre-chorus section, when Stevie raises register and "wails" just before they sing "..and I'm the one who oughtta know" gets me every time.
they have the most unique voices of anyone and they sound so perfect together
hard to believe he is gone...R.I.P Tom
Stevie just feels so much when she sings. Tom is such a great guy. Miss him have been a fan since dam the torpedoes. There will never be a better duet ever. Seen both in 1981 Sacramento State fair
This is gorgeous
It's so hard to ponder that another legend from my teenage years gone. I loved this song it was my favorite all time duet especially when I got into trouble back in the days. So thanks Tom Petty for the awesome music that I have listened to for the last 30 some odd years. Rest In Peace Tom Petty another legend gone 😢😢😢😢😢😢😇😇😇😇😇
I will miss you, Tom😘Thanks for touching us with your art.
Now this is REAL music!
Love this song, just heard it for the first time on sirius a couple of months ago and fell in love with it. Stevie and Tom are always great together, the chemistry is great
man i get tears in my eyes every time i hear Tom Petty or George Harrison on the radio these days
If that’s not love... I don’t know what is. Some serious magic documented during this session.
Tom Perry’s music catalog is literally the soundtrack of life Rest In Peace Tom you are missed by everyone you’ve touched with your beautiful music
Rest in peace Tom and Thank you Sir for your music
Most incredible duet
What a great musician we've lost, I send my condolences to his family, friends and his band. REST IN HEAVEN TOM, WE LOVE YOU
I'm with ya
Beautiful song. I've been a fan of Tom for as long as I can remember thanks to my dad. His music has gotten me through the darkest time of my life & for that I am forever grateful. & he's still rockin. Amazing man, amazing music.
Hey younguns! She wasn't the only one in love with that man. I've been in love with him since the first time I heard "Breakdown". I bought the album the next day and I've bought every one since. He grew up not too far from where I live now. "in love" might be an exaggeration but I surely love his voice and his songs.
I'm "in lOve" with him too! :-P
How is it possible I’ve never heard this before? There’s no such thing as a perfect song but this comes so close. Their vocal harmonies alone are fabulous. Every human with a heart can relate to the lyrics. And the stripped down instrumentals make it ... perfect.
Someone else commented that they wished someone would look at them the way Stevie looked at Tom. I had a woman look at me that way for a few years and will always regret not doing whatever it would’ve taken to keep her with me.
I love this fucking song so much
Matt Caracciolo
I do too!
Me too Matt. Going to see Fleetwood Mac tomorrow night and I know Tom will be there!
Here's to the survivors.
The camera really loves her.
Yess it definitely does!!! Only a few can pull that off !!
My most favorite Stevie duet. One of the most incredible songs ever written.
Love Petty and Nicks. Fun to revisit these after watching Daisy Jones and the Six
Thank you Tom Petty; this is beautiful...
Wow, sweet song. I learned about it while watching the Tom Petty documentary on Netflix, definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it...
Michael Ashe thank you! Watching it now!!!
Awesome! It's long, I watched it over the course of three evenings, loved it. :)
If you liked the Netflix documentary, the book "Petty" by Warren Zanes is excellent. Petty's story is so deep and has so many twists and turns. But man, he never backs down. So to speak.
Michael Ashe whats the documentary called?
mr_white_dude2. 0 Runnin down a dream
You've got a dangerous background
And everything you've dreamed of
Yeah you're the Dark Angel
It don't show when you break up
and I'm the one who oughta know
Im the one left in the dust
Yeah I'm the broken hearted fool
Who was never quite enough
[Chorus:]
I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire
And I've had to live with some hard promises
I've crawled through the briars -- I'm an insider
It's a circle of deception
It's a hall of strangers
It's a cage without a key
You can feel the danger
And I'm the one who oughta know
I'm the one you couldn't trust
I'm the lonely silent one
I'm the one left in the dust
[Chorus]
I'll bet you're his masterpiece
I'll bet you're his self-control
Yeah you'll become his legacy
His quiet world of white and gold
And I'm the one who oughta know
I'm the one you left to rust
Not one of your twisted friends
I'm the one you couldn't love
[Chorus]
This song always makes me cry
You open hearts to sincere music in the purest form. Rest easy in the next universe.
My favorite TPHB. Live at Gainesville is the real one. Written for Stevie Nicks, Tom decided to record it as a duet with her instead. Good choice.
Such a brilliant analogy of things left unsaid.. Brilliant Mr. Pettty..
It's a cage without a key
You can feel the danger
And I'm the one who oughta know
I'm the one you couldn't trust
I'm the lonely silent one
I'm the one left in the dust
Searingly beautiful … 💔
This touches my heart deeply and is an unbelievably accurate description of my failed marriage and the divorce I am currently going through.
One of my favorites--just pure, beautiful harmony! Needles & Pins, also wonderful. Thank God we have his music forever.❤🙏
Beautiful
How have I Never Heard this before??!
The only musician I bursted into tears when hearing of his death Tom is a one in a kind and blessed us so much with his talent and Stevie compliments him perfect on this song
I’m the one left in the dust ~ I’m the one you couldn’t love ~ I’m an insider
Rip Tom petty you and Stevie belong together. My heart is breaking.
Kelley Sue Hi
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
Agreed, it really was MAGIC, along with this pair's 'Stop Draggin' Heart Around' featured on her album that same year as well. :-)
I so miss Tom Petty. What greatness.
Two of the greatest voices of all time.
They sounded so great together
KEEP SINGING IN HEAVEN!
She's silent....... She's Insider. Hard to type these word's... RIP Tom Petty.
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music🎧 today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?