The video for the fifth single from Full Moon Fever is notable mostly because it stars disgraced former Saturday Night Live player Charles Rocket, who famously got booted in 1981 for dropping an f-bomb on air. 'An Artist of Incredible Power': Tom Petty Mourned By Warner Bros., Live Nation, SiriusXM and More Not much happens, but there’s something in the way Petty takes you on a tour of his adopted hometown that feels like a peek into another world.
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The black and white clip opens with a cigar-smoking Nemo rousing Petty from bed, and leading him up a ladder into the sky where the singer climbs up into the moon and has a series of wacky - and frankly, super trippy - adventures.įor the first clip off Petty’s debut solo album, Full Moon Fever, the singer matches the lyrical allusions to iconic Los Angeles locations with dreamy visions in which he sings while floating above a sweet 16 party and Ventura Blvd., strolls through a mall strumming guitar and watches some badass female skateboarders shred a half-pipe. You’re nobody until you get animated, and that’s exactly what the gang did for this 1989 video directed by Jim Lenahan inspired by the early 20th century comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. They also dialed up some cool effects that allowed Tom to paint with a handful of static, seemingly harnessing the full complement of then-cutting-edge video editing tricks.
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The visual for the first single from 1987’s Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) found Petty and the boys lampooning the emerging 57-channels-and-nothing’s-on culture with a green screen classic featuring a quick-cut montage of headlines, news footage and old TV shows displayed behind the band.
The image of a grinning Petty in that giant giant crimson hat, black bowtie and square glasses cutting into the living Alice cake and offering up a polite burp remains one of the most iconic scenes in all of music video history. With MTV in full flower, Petty and the gang embraced big-budget productions with this landmark Alice in Wonderland-themed video from their Southern Accents albums in which producer Dave Stewart plays the sitar-playing, hookah-smoking caterpillar, Petty dresses up as the Mad Hatter, and actress Wish Foley puts on the Alice outfit. With Petty and guitarist Mike Campbell playing post-apocalyptic cowboys who find a dusty cassette player that just happens to contain the music to the song, it essentially puts a future-shock spin on what is yet another another solid performance clip, spiked with a little bit of “acting” by the whole gang. With a half dozen straight-ahead clips under their belts, the Heartbreakers went for it with this Road Warrior-inspired sci-fi adventure, based on an treatment they wrote themselves. Coping With the Gut Punch of Tom Petty's Death at 66
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