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Culture Gabfest Presents: Hit Parade, Le Petty Prince Edition

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In 2004, Prince joined Tom Petty onstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for what is now regarded as the institution’s greatest live performance. They were both first-ballot inductees—but their similarities go much deeper. On this month’s Hit Parade, we track the surprising parallels between two artists gone far too soon: from their fights with the music industry to their hits across genres and generations—and even the songs they gave to Stevie Nicks. Petty and Prince were category-defying, label-infuriating, and among the best pop songwriters of the late 20th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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recent chrome tabs across both devices.

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The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.

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Bluetooth and internet connection required.

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You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart history from Slate and Panapley, about the hits from

0:42.0

Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst,

0:45.2

pop critic, and writer of Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series. On today's show,

0:51.3

it's been a tough couple of years if you're a fan of classic culture-spanning,

0:56.2

chart-dominating rock and roll.

0:58.8

We've lost some real icons.

1:01.4

It's been just under a month since the music world mourned the loss of one of the great singer-songwriters and torchbearers of rock Tom Petty. And it's been just over a year and a free falling.

1:19.0

And it's been just over a year and a half since we lost the multi genre, multi instrumentalist, prolific

1:26.2

pop genius, Prince. Purple Rain.

1:33.0

Purple Rain.

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Purple Rain. Beyond their shared status as music legends and American pop craftsmen, Tom Petty and Prince would not appear to have much in common. The former, a product of a southern white family from Gainesville, Florida, turned Proud Angelino

1:56.1

and hitmaker on mainstream rock radio.

1:59.4

And the latter, Minneapolis's favorite son, an African-American polymath descended from jazz

2:05.4

musicians who broke on urban radio. They are also, not incidentally, both Rock and

2:11.8

Roll Hall of Famers.

2:13.8

And as such, Petty and Prince were both a part of what is widely considered the greatest

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