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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Here's a little-known version of a well-known song by Tom Petty. He's playing live in Hollywood in 1977.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BREAKDOWN")

TOM PETTY: (Singing) It's all right if you love me. It's all right if you don't.

INSKEEP: It's a posthumous1 release of a singer who died of a drug overdose one year ago next week.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BREAKDOWN")

T. PETTY: (Singing) It's all right. It's all right.

INSKEEP: As the anniversary of Tom Petty's death arrives, people close to him are releasing more of his music.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DON'T FADE ON ME")

T. PETTY: (Singing) I remember you so clearly, the first one through the door.

INSKEEP: Bandmates and family members spent months hitting play on stacks of old recordings3. They chose 60 tunes4 to release. His widow, Dana Petty, listened in their home studio in California.

DANA PETTY: It was a very healing experience.

INSKEEP: What do you mean by healing?

D. PETTY: Well, you know, at first, it was really hard to even listen to him on the radio, especially when he spoke5. In these recordings, there's a lot of joking around with the band and him talking, and that was hard.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING2)

T. PETTY: This is a new song called "Listen To Her Heart."

D. PETTY: As we listened, it got easier. And it was a lot of laughter and a lot of tears. It was very healing, I think, for all of us.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LISTEN TO HER HEART")

T. PETTY: (Singing) You think you're going to take her away with your money and your cocaine6.

INSKEEP: The recordings preserve the voice of a man who lived in front of a microphone. Dana Petty spoke of the recordings with Benmont Tench, Tom Petty's keyboardist, who heard his younger self on some of them.

BENMONT TENCH: Old tapes from my parents' living room of our first band recording a demo.

INSKEEP: Was that like one of those old audio cassette recorders?

TENCH: No, we actually - to make a demo to try to get a record deal in 1973, we had a local guy who had a van with a reel-to-reel tape machine come to the house. And he put some mics up. And we played live in my parents' living room, seven or eight songs. And my parents, God bless them, they let us practice at the house. All we had to do was stop playing when the "CBS Evening News" came on so my dad could listen to the news.

INSKEEP: (Laughter).

TENCH: And we were loud, and my parents were totally fine with it.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ANYTHING THAT'S ROCK 'N' ROLL")

T. PETTY: (Singing) Some friends of mine and me stayed up all through the night, rocking pretty steady till the sky went light. I didn't go to bed, didn't go to work. I picked up the telephone, told the boss he was a jerk.

INSKEEP: This is a song from 1976. The artist was on the radio from the 1970s until roughly now, with lyrics7 that had a distinctive8 edge. She might need a lot of loving, but she don't need you. You got lucky, babe, when I found you. Benmont Tench recalls Petty sometimes waited like a fisherman for the words to come. And other times, they just flowed out.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FREE FALLIN'")

T. PETTY: (Singing) She's a good girl, loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too.

TENCH: I wasn't there when he wrote "Free Fallin'." But he was totally capable of picking up a guitar or sitting down at a piano, opening his mouth and not thinking and something as complete and beautiful as "Free Fallin'" coming out...

D. PETTY: Yeah.

TENCH: ...In the course of the time it takes to sing the song.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FREE FALLIN'")

T. PETTY: (Singing) And I'm free, free fallin'.

INSKEEP: He was not in very good shape the last few years, was he?

D. PETTY: He had knee problems and then his hip9, and he just found out he had emphysema. But, you know, he was, emotionally, in a really good place.

INSKEEP: The news accounts of his death linked it to pain medication, which I think I understand hearing you saying that he had a variety of issues that people have as they get older. This is, in a way, a tragically10 common story in the country.

D. PETTY: Yeah. He wasn't doing pain meds when he was performing. But when he got home, it was obviously getting worse.

TENCH: We knew that he had a fracture in his hip, but he wanted to play.

D. PETTY: Yes.

TENCH: And if the dressing11 room was far on the last tour, he would take a golf cart from the dressing room to the steps up to the stage. But the second he hit the stage, he was on and he was gone. He was - you'd never have known anything.

D. PETTY: It was the only time he was out of pain, I think, is when he was onstage.

INSKEEP: It was at the start of October in 2017 when he asked Dana Petty if they could listen to one of his songs together.

D. PETTY: "You And Me," he wanted to hear that on October 1. It was the last song he heard.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU AND ME")

T. PETTY: (Singing) Take a look at what I got. I can't promise you a lot. But you and me...

D. PETTY: It's hard to hear that song. I mean, he wrote that song during our engagement. It was very special to both of us.

INSKEEP: I'm thinking about that moment with that song, "You And Me." He just happened to be thinking of you.

D. PETTY: Yeah, I guess. I didn't - I haven't thought about it that way. You're going to make me cry, but yeah. I think he knew that he didn't have long. And that last day is just so - it's just surreal that - he had me look up Cindy Crawford (ph)...

(LAUGHTER)

D. PETTY: ...His junior high girlfriend who is partially12 responsible for getting him into music.

TENCH: Different Cindy Crawford.

D. PETTY: Different Cindy Crawford.

INSKEEP: Oh, OK.

D. PETTY: She lived in Gainesville.

INSKEEP: Just checking. Go on.

D. PETTY: She lived in Gainesville, really beautiful girl that was putting on a dance for his junior high. And she asked him if he knew a band. And he said, oh, yeah, I have a band - which he didn't, so he went out - he got a band together and played the dance.

INSKEEP: On Facebook, they looked up the woman who had started his career. And the next day, Tom Petty was dead. What remained was recording after recording of a man who never stopped thinking about his music.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "KEEP A LITTLE SOUL")

T. PETTY: One, two, three, four.

INSKEEP: And Tom Petty's newly published recordings offer, as pop songs often do, advice for life.

TENCH: And there's something about what he says in "Keep A Little Soul." Don't be afraid to - what is it? Don't be afraid to be what you...

D. PETTY: To live what you believe.

TENCH: Don't be afraid to live what you believe.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "KEEP A LITTLE SOUL")

T. PETTY: (Singing) Don't be afraid to live what you believe. Nothing matters. It doesn't matter, no. It doesn't matter when you keep a little soul...

D. PETTY: And that's the one I listen to the most, and it's not too dark. There's hope there.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "KEEP A LITTLE SOUL")

T. PETTY: (Singing) Warm people got soul, honey. Hard people got dreams.

INSKEEP: Benmont Tench and Dana Petty, thanks to you both.

D. PETTY: Thank you so much.

TENCH: Thank you, Steve.


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1 posthumous w1Ezl     
adj.遗腹的;父亡后出生的;死后的,身后的
参考例句:
  • He received a posthumous award for bravery.他表现勇敢,死后受到了嘉奖。
  • The legendary actor received a posthumous achievement award.这位传奇男星在过世后获得终身成就奖的肯定。
2 recording UktzJj     
n.录音,记录
参考例句:
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
3 recordings 22f9946cd05973582e73e4e3c0239bb7     
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
参考例句:
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
4 tunes 175b0afea09410c65d28e4b62c406c21     
n.曲调,曲子( tune的名词复数 )v.调音( tune的第三人称单数 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
参考例句:
  • a potpourri of tunes 乐曲集锦
  • When things get a bit too much, she simply tunes out temporarily. 碰到事情太棘手时,她干脆暂时撒手不管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
6 cocaine VbYy4     
n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂)
参考例句:
  • That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
  • Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
7 lyrics ko5zoz     
n.歌词
参考例句:
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
8 distinctive Es5xr     
adj.特别的,有特色的,与众不同的
参考例句:
  • She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
  • This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
9 hip 1dOxX     
n.臀部,髋;屋脊
参考例句:
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
10 tragically 7bc94e82e1e513c38f4a9dea83dc8681     
adv. 悲剧地,悲惨地
参考例句:
  • Their daughter was tragically killed in a road accident. 他们的女儿不幸死于车祸。
  • Her father died tragically in a car crash. 她父亲在一场车祸中惨死。
11 dressing 1uOzJG     
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
参考例句:
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
12 partially yL7xm     
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
参考例句:
  • The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
  • The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静,宵禁部分解除。

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