Tom Petty and the Creation of “Wildflowers”
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For the season one finale of Broken Record, Malcolm Gladwell talks with Rick Rubin about Tom Petty, who died in October 2017 at the age of 66. Rubin and Petty worked together for two years on his beloved 1994 album “Wildflowers.” Rubin talks about Petty’s writing style, and how half the songs they recorded for Wildflowers ended up on the cutting room floor.
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| 0:51.7 | My name is Malcolm Glebble. |
| 0:53.1 | Welcome to Broken Record. |
| 0:54.8 | This is the final episode of our first season, and it's a special episode, because it's |
| 1:00.1 | about Tom Petty. |
| 1:03.4 | Every now and again, there is an artist who provides the soundtrack for his or her generation. |
| 1:08.1 | I think Tom Petty was one of those people. |
| 1:11.6 | He died in October 2017, after a 40th anniversary tour with his band The Heartbreakers. |
| 1:23.1 | Many a few weeks after his passing, Rick Rubin and I met at Rick's studio to talk about |
| 1:27.9 | Tom Petty. |
| 1:29.0 | In particular, about the contrast between that effortless, lachonic California sound and |
| 1:34.8 | the man behind it. |
| 1:36.3 | We didn't think of this at the time as something that we would turn into an episode. |
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