The one singer Tom Petty always listened to: “Really impressed”Tom Petty didn’t see himself as someone who reinvented the wheel every single time he made a record. Because, really, Petty was looking for other ambassadors of his brand of rock and roll whenever he turned on the radio. Eurythmics don’t sound anything like what Petty would have been doing in the 1980s, but Dave Stewart was clearly working from a songwriter’s perspective, which explained why he took so well to working with Petty on Southern Accents. But even if Petty had more than enough people to bounce off of in the Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne was someone who was his perfect foil in many ways. Petty might not have been ready to record with Lynne at that point, but over time, they seemed to be cut from the same cloth.