It seems fitting that “The Waiting,” Tom Petty‘s classic song about romantic anticipation, took the songwriter many weeks to finish. Everything began with the song’s classic intro, which Petty wrote on acoustic guitar. “I wanted something that had a little lick from the beginning,” he explains in Peter Bogdanovich’s 2007 documentary, Runnin’ Down a Dream, […]
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