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OT: story of Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer”….

rooster0218

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…it was written by The Heartbreaker’s Mike Campbell for Tom Petty and Petty passed on it. Don Henley then made it a classic and it became the song that would really kick off his solo career.

Henley’s song is great - and I think it’s his lyrics - but I would love to have heard Tom Petty’s version.



 
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