The opening track on Petty's debut solo album, 1989's Full Moon Fever, "Free Fallin'" wasn't just Petty's longest-charting song, it was his highest-charting solo track, peaking at #7 in January 1990 (his duet with Stevie Nicks, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," hit #3 in 1981). Not bad for a song Petty and Jeff Lynne, who would later end up being one of his bandmates in the Traveling Wilburys, reportedly wrote and recorded in just two days.
"Jeff came over and I had a little electric keyboard that Bugs [technician and roadie Alan “Bugs” Weidel] had bought. I really gave him hell about buying it. I said, 'Why would you waste money on this? I would never play something like this,'" Petty recalled.
"And when I did that, it made this nice round of chords. And so I was just trying really to make Jeff smile as I was ad-libbing these words," Petty revealed.
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The enduring popularity of "Free Fallin'" was a huge contributor to the fact that Full Moon Fever ended up being certified five times platinum in 2000 for achieving a total of five million sales since its release. Nearly 40 years later, people are still listening: At the time of this writing, "Free Fallin'" has been streamed 914,104,192 on Spotify alone.
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