I got a copy (a much-awaited one, too) of Damn The Torpedoes for my birthday in 1980. It must have had an impression, since I can remember it. Tom Petty wasn't as cool as, say, Elvis Costello or XTC or a lot of what I was buying then, but I thought he was fresh and exciting at the time. Refugee still sounds fine.
I am a journalist with CBC News in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I'm taller than I look. This blog has been running quietly since 2004.
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