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Tom petty listen to her heart6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The interview had started with the contents of the bag – ‘You’re Gonna Get It’ (fortunately I didn’t get out the Albert Camus novel that was also there, as I suspect talking about that would have sunk me) and went onto talk about other musical likes and and a shared dislike of opera and Wagner. ![]() It was perhaps the best purchase of my life. I had wandered around the yet-to-be regenerated Covent Garden and had stopped at a record shop, probably somewhere near Shaftesbury Avenue and saw Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 2 nd album on offer and with the few quid in my pocket had bought it. The night before the interview, I had stayed with J (see Lindisfarne – Run for Home) in Surrey commuter land and had gone into central London with the City workers and had plenty of time to kill before my late morning interview. Twelve months on, despite my not quite good enough A Level results, I was, perhaps, slightly more confident in myself – I had found a new Saturday job working for an old boss who, when I enquired about the job, S offered it to me on the spot without an interview I had successfully found some new friends and was consequently going out a lot more and at the FE College I had gone to in Nottingham to re-take my A Levels I had a great, inspirational teacher in A, who clearly saw something in me and was always really encouraging and positive towards me. While I was offered places through ‘clearing’ at some less renowned educational establishments, I suppose that I also realised that I wanted to move to London and not have the comfort blanket of being close to ‘home.’ My grades weren’t quite good enough for my first choice Hull or my fall-back position of Sheffield. It was the only formal interview that I had had when I applied to universities in late 1977. I had been dreading the interview at the London School of Economics for a place on their Geography degree course 12 months before I had had a crash and burn interview at University College, London and, unsurprisingly, had failed to even get an unachievable offer from them. Perhaps as a result, he is one of the few artists that I have almost certainly played every year for the best part of 40 years. Tom Petty holds a very special place for me – unlike anyone else, I can genuinely say that his music changed my life it was something that I recognised as soon as it happened and reflect upon every time I listened to his music.
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