Weekend Wildcard - I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty

This Weekend's Wildcard is I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty. The YouTube clip is mislabeled. This is off of Tom Petty's first solo album Full Moon River (1989) and is not a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers release.

Recently, Sam Smith (Never heard of him before) put out a song, Stay With Me, that uses almost the exact melody from this song. Petty's publishing company reached out to Sam Smith's publisher and they agreed to give Petty and Jeff Lynn co-writing credits on the song. You will hear people say that Tom Petty sued him or threatened to sue but it was nothing like that.



Here is the Sam Smith Song