Edge of Seventeen

Awesome song.

The way the story goes is that Edge of Seventeen, it was something she misheard.

It was Tom Petty's first wife, Jane, who had a really thick Southern accent.

And she said she had known Tom since the age of 17.

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As big as all these number 11 hits were, I would say the ultimate 80s number 11 hit is Stevie Nicks' Edge of Seventeen.

Ooh.

The full title of the single is Edge of 17, parentheses, Just Like the White-Winged Dove.

A riff, by the way, that he borrowed from the police's Bring on the Night.

The title, Edge of 17, is actually a mondegreen, a misheard phrase that Stevie Nicks copped from Tom Petty's then-wife, who said that she met Tom Petty at the, quote, age of 17.

Edge of Seventeen was underestimated in its day.

It was the third single released from Stevie Nicks' number one album, Belladonna.

Yeah.

So it's Edge of Seventeen, which is Stevie Nicks, mixed with, um, Midnight Sky.

Why did you have to say her ni- name out loud, though?

Oh, no. Oh, God.

So I do think there is a connection.

There's a correlation.

That, um, that song, by the way, that, uh, Edge of Seventeen, I never used to know the lyrics, right? The bit that goes, "Just like the white winged dove, there's a song that I keep singing".

Yeah.

I thought every time people were talking about Phoebe Bridgers, they kept, in my mind, saying Stevie Nicks.

So I'm like, wow, the woman that's saying Edge of Seventeen's in this movie? I don't know why I could not get that.

And now it's like the mistake has ran so long.

The promotionals of her, like behind the scenes photos are, is still hard for me to concept.

This is the person that wrote Edge of Seventeen.

No, they're not.

That's not her.