“It came in piece by piece,” said Tom Petty of his 1981 hit “The Waiting.” Petty already had a chorus in place, and kept playing it on repeat for weeks, but the verses and bridge took even longer to find. “I knew, when I had gotten that chorus, that I was definitely onto something very good,” added […]
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