The 1976 classic Tom Petty disowned: “It doesn’t feel like a song I would sing now”The songs that Tom Petty wrote as a 25-year-old man painted a true reflection of who he was for a brief moment in time, not the person he would become. With Petty, there was one particularly song that was packed with memories of a life that he no longer recognised. If you told a casual Petty fan that he would sound like that in the 1970s, their heads might have exploded. A song that epitomises early Petty is ‘Breakdown’, which he grew to resent as the years passed. It is undeniably a young man’s song, and would have been somewhat undignified if he released it in his 50s.