I must admit I had never heard this song before Keith mentioned it the other day when I played Del Shannon’s Runaway, but then Clive also mentioned it and suggested it might be a good follow-up, so … here we are!  The song itself isn’t likely to hit my top ten list anytime soon … but the video is so much fun that it’s well worth listening a second, or even third time!

Some interesting background from SongFacts …

In this song, Petty sings about driving into the great wide open, with nothing but glorious possibility in his path.

Petty started running down his dream of being a rocker in 1961 when he met Elvis Presley. Petty, 11 years old, came to the Ocala, Florida, set where Elvis was working on the film Follow That Dream – a title Tom took to heart. In a brief encounter, Petty saw how…