Hit Parade: Le Petty Prince Edition

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K 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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0:28.2	today. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart history from Slate and Panoply,
0:43.6	about the hits from coast to coast.
0:45.8	I'm Chris Malanfe, chart analyst, pop critic,
0:48.7	and writer of Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series.
0:52.4	On today's show, it's been a tough Why is the Song Number One series?
0:52.5	On today's show, it's been a tough couple of years
0:55.9	if you're a fan of classic, culture spanning,
0:58.8	chart-dominating rock and roll.
1:01.2	We've lost some real icons. It's been just under a month since the music world
1:06.8	mourned the loss of one of the great singer-songwriters and torchbearers of rock,
1:11.8	Tom Petty.
1:12.6	And it's been free
1:17.0	falling.
1:22.2	And it's been just over a year and a half since we lost the multi genre, multi instrumentalist, prolific pop genius, Prince. Beyond their shared status as music legends and American pop craftsmen, Tom Petty and
1:49.4	Prince would not appear to have much in common, the former, a product of a Southern White family from Gainesville, Florida,
1:56.6	turned Proud Angelino and hitmaker on mainstream rock radio.
2:01.4	And the latter, Minneapolis's favorite son an African American
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