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Southern Gallery: Tom Petty

Holly George-Warren, Oxford American, 15 July 2000

I GUESS YOU can say it was my theme song: its jangling, melodic guitar riff perfect for pogoing, and the urgent vocals laced with a kind of down-south English accent insisting that "there was a little more to life somewhere else".

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