I liked Tom Petty when a friend of mine introduced me to his first record when i was about 14 or 15. I think it was not titled, it was just Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I rememer Luna, and the big hit (i think from that album) was American Girl.
We saw him in concert, her parents were traditional Portugese, and her father came to the concert with us. We made him sit in the row behind us. Anyway, i am not so much into the later Tom Petty, I am more a fan of the early Tom Petty.
I remember when I saw The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins kidnapped that girl, the senator’s daughter. When they first brought her onto the screen, she was sitting in her little brown car, which was my first car, listening to American Girl. She reminded me of myself, and when she got kidnapped, i remember having nightmares about it after. Part of what made me identify with her was her sitting in her little brown car listening to American Girl.