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Fact #168233

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Short story:

Free Fallin' by Tom Petty tops the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in the USA.

Full article:

Lenny Waronker : (Former president, Warner Bros. Records) : I love Free Fallin'. We were lucky: my wife and I and [former Warner Bros. chairman/CEO] Mo Ostin and his wife were all up at Mo's house having dinner with George [Harrison], Tom and Jeff [Lynne]. They brought their acoustic guitars with them... It was kind of like being in Nashville or something. You had these three gigantic guitars in this big living room with wood ceilings. Tom played Free Fallin’. I have to imagine it was one of the first times. It was just unreal to hear it that way. I remember saying, 'Do it again, do it again.' I just had to hear it again. It was a fantastic presentation of a song.

Most great writers have their own take on the world. He sees things in his way, which makes it unique. I can't exactly explain that, except that you know his language when you hear his songs. By the words that he uses, often you can tell it's Tom.
(Source : interview in Billboard, March 20, 2006)