How Tom Petty's Dave Stewart Experiment Led to a Lifelong Friendship

Tom Petty did not have particularly high hopes for the '80s.

His first album of the decade, 1981's 'Hard Promises,' came along with a slew of legal entanglements and Petty simply became exhausted. Doctors encouraged him to cut short his 1981 U.S. tour, so Petty took some time off before considering his next project.

'Long After Dark' brought some of Petty's spark back a year later, courtesy of a hit single in "You Got Lucky" that featured this prominent synthesizer riff. Where to go from there? Petty wasn't entirely sure, but fresh ideas would arrive in the form of a new collaborator – Dave Stewart of Eurythmics.

We're revisiting this unlikely partnership — and subsequent lifelong friendship — in the latest video from our Odd Couples series.

0:00 Introduction
0:22 Tom Petty suggests Dave Stewart....for another project
0:47 Stewart and Petty decide to collaborate
0:55 The pair found they had a good spark
1:06 "Don't Come Around Here No More"
1:31 The Band
1:41 Prince
1:52 Not everybody was happy
2:13 What didn't make the album
2:31 Could the music have been better?
2:35 ...how about some horns?
2:46 We probably also need a cello...
2:55 Petty and Stewart's friendship
3:25 The Traveling Wilburys
3:40 Conclusion

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