i love & hate this song at the same time; it's haunting & the video is intense. sometimes it comes on the radio & i have to change the station before don henley starts singing because i can't deal with hearing the words at that moment. other times, i'm captured by the song & i stop wherever i am - store, car, kitchen - & just listen, really listen, because the song demands it. its overwhelmed me since i was about 15 years old & able to relate to it. wayfarers may have become ray bans & instead of a dead head sticker it may be a black flag sticker (as the ataris informed us in their cover) on a cadillac, but this song is timeless; it isn't outdated by the 80's or the fact that an Eagle recorded it.
mike campbell (from the heartbreakers), who worked in the studio with don henley, says it could be just a coincidence that it was only after hearing The Boys of Summer that tom petty left his studio & punched a wall so hard he crushed the bone in his hand into powder.
-i don't believe in coincidence.
***the music video was removed from youtube which is just wrong because it's an amazing video everyone should see! but here's video of a great live version...
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