Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Tom Petty - Don’t Come Around Here No More
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had a string of good music videos including “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and “Runnin’ Down A Dream”. But this is the one that always sticks out in my mind - of course it could just be that its imprinted in my mind because MTV played it so often.
Directed by Jeff Stein in 1985. Stein has directed 40 music videos including The Cars “You Might Think”, Carly Simon “My New Boyfriend” and Billy Idol “Rebel Yell”. Allegedly he started to direct Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark”, but Springsteen halted the video mid-shoot and a new director re-shot the video the way it was released. Besides music videos Stein directed TV shows “Barney Miller” and “Mr. Belvedere”.
