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2:24 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitars), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ron Blair (Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), Denny Cordell (Produced By), Noah Shark (Engineered By), Noah Shark (Mixed By), Max Reese (Engineered By), Max Reese (Mixed By) | | Comments | Recorded and mixed at: Shelter Studios, Hollywood, CA (Gone Gator Records/MCA Records) "Tom may deny this," Mike says slyly. "We pretty well had the album finished and we had this manager at the time who took us to see Kiss. We'd never seen Kiss. They were at their height, they had all the smoke bombs. We thought, 'Wow, this is great, all these people are coming to see this band and it's like the circus!' And they had that song, 'I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.' I remember making a comment to Tom that 'All you have to do these days is put the words rock and roll in a song and it'll get on the radio.' The next day Tom came in with this song, 'Anything that's rock 'n' roll's fine.' I can't take credit for that, but I do remember saying it. Whether he heard me or not I don't know. "I love that song and I love the Beach Boys backgrounds at the end. We could never aspire to be as good as the Beach Boys, but Tom and I loved their records. When I was a kid that was the stuff on the radio I would always get off on. Their records were so much better than anything else I was hearing. I've studied those records in and out. I don't know how they did it, but they sure did it." | | Appears On | |
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