I Won't Back Down
Song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Sep 25, 2026
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Unfortunately, unbeknownst to anybody, especially himself at that time, he would pass away one week later.
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The set, for those wondering, started off with Rockin' Around With You, then Mary Jane's Last Dance, You Don't Know How It Feels, Forgotten Man, I Won't Back Down, which was dedicated to his longtime radio promoter, John Scott, who had passed away.
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Free Fallin', Breakdown, Don't Come Around Here No More, It's Good to Be King, Crawling Back to You, Wildflowers, Learning to Fly, You're So Bad, I Should Have Known It, Refugee, Runnin' Down a Dream, and for the encore, he did You Wreck Me and American Girl, which was the final song that Tom Petty ever performed live.
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In 2019, PBS broadcasted the eighth and final episode of filmmaker Ken Burns' highly anticipated 16-hour documentary series called Country Music.
Jimmy FaillaHOST
They hate him around the world, but he ain't backing down.
Jimmy FaillaHOST
You know the old Tom Petty song "I Won't Back Down"? Okay, here he is.
Jimmy FaillaHOST
As he gets up to speak, 78 countries start leaving.
Jimmy FaillaHOST
Clip one.
Ryan GreenHOST
Can I pick against them two weeks in a row? And I was going back and forth on this.
Ryan GreenHOST
Do I pick Florida? Do I pick Ole Miss? And as I'm driving in, literally driving in to the 1010 XL studios here in Jacksonville about 35 minutes ago, I'm listening to the radio, and what comes on? I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty.
Patrick YoungHOST
Ah.
Ryan GreenHOST
And I'm like, all right.
Ryan GreenHOST
If that's not an omen, I don't know what is.
Patrick YoungHOST
Damn.
Ryan GreenHOST
On my 15-minute drive from my house to the radio station, coming to do a Florida Gator podcast with a former Gator great in Patrick Young- I won't back down from Tom Petty comes on the radio in that 15-minute span.
Ryan GreenHOST
That to me is a sign, give me Florida to pull off, even though it wouldn't be an upset in Vegas' eyes.
Dave HawkinsHOST
Bright Star chose a song from Tom Petty because its message resonates with them personally.
Dave HawkinsHOST
The couple said they wanna stand firm in a world that's not designed for neurodivergent people, which is why they invited their nine-year-old autistic son to join them on I Won't Back Down.
Dave HawkinsHOST
[rock music]
Amber PacificSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, I won't back down.
Amber PacificSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, I won't back down.
Amber PacificSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.
Amber PacificSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, I stand my ground.
Amber PacificSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I won't be turned around.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
so they did a new picture.
John FuglesangGUEST
But actually what happened was they were playing Lara Trump's cover of Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down, and that's what caused the
Jodi HamiltonHOST
violence of the
John FuglesangGUEST
cringe.
Josh Adam MeyersHOST
I think he's a brilliant artist, uh, even though he stole from Tom Petty.
Josh Adam MeyersHOST
Was it Tom Petty that he stole that first song, uh, that Won- he stole I Won't Back Down? You know.
Josh Adam MeyersHOST
Uh-
Chris PorterGUEST
I mean, probably.
Freddie BenderHOST
Yes.
Matt KempfHOST
Don't Back Down.
Freddie BenderHOST
Yeah.
Matt KempfHOST
It's gonna be just an electric atmosphere.
Mike HarringtonHOST
rip off yeah so this song was a hit um this thing is this is the type of music that we like i definitely bristle at it it's very homogenized it's very overproduced straight rip off of a vocal melody of another independent artist um to the point where noah khan's team actually had to reach out to them and now uh they gave him a writing credit on this song because of
Danny McCrumHOST
that right It's like that story with Sam Smith accidentally ripping off Won't Back Down with Tom Petty.
Danny McCrumHOST
Did you hear about that
Mike HarringtonHOST
story? You think this is an accident?
Ike SkeltonGUEST
Perfect.
Tom PettySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
can stand me up at the gates of hell but i won't back down no i'll stand my ground won't be turned around and i'll keep this world from dragging me down gonna stand In a world that keeps on pushing me around, but I'll stand my ground.
Tom PettySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Damn.
Tom PettySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I will stand my ground.
Tom PettySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I won't back down.
Tom PettySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, I won't back down.
Tom PettySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All
Ike SkeltonGUEST
right, we're back.
Joey StuckeyGUEST
But I really didn't get a chance to think about him much as an artist until that solo album came out.
Joey StuckeyGUEST
They had, you know, I Won't Back Down.
Joey StuckeyGUEST
So good.
Joey StuckeyGUEST
Yeah, the whole record, you know.
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