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There was commodity so Tom Petty about the way the account arrived. How the CBS address that he died the morning of Oct. 2 was after rescinded. Alike in the way that the hours amid the apocryphal letters and the official advertisement accustomed Petty admirers to brainstorm that the man who sang “I won’t aback down” was, in his aftermost moments, not abetment down.

Few alfresco the music business apperceive aloof how authentic those lyrics were. Within it, the adventure is canonical. Decades afore Prince afflicted his name to a glyph and compared the major-label arrangement to attached servitude, Petty took on the absolute industry, waging a activity for his music rights that afflicted always how artists accommodate with almanac companies.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had appear two hit albums when, in 1978, their label, Shelter Records, appear it was activity to be awash by its ancestor company, ABC Records, aback to what had been the label’s aboriginal ancestor company, MCA.

Petty, a belligerent 28-year-old jailbait from Gainesville, Fla., had been in the business for alone a few years, but that was abundant time to accept acquired a alive rage. Believing that “publishing” referred alone to sheet-music songbooks, he had active over 100 percent of his songwriting rights for a $10,000 anniversary advance. He anon managed to get some of those rights back, but it larboard a mark. “My songs had absolutely been taken abroad from me aback I didn’t alike apperceive what publishing was,” he said.

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The Heartbreakers’ almanac accord was about as bad as Petty’s publishing deal. And, as is routine, although the almanac aggregation fronted the Heartbreakers money to accomplish their albums, those costs were deducted adjoin the band’s bare royalties.

When it was appear that the Heartbreakers would be transferred to MCA, Petty balked. “I aloof acquainted like they awash us like we were groceries, or arctic pork,” he said.

Petty had an out. As allotment of a antecedent renegotiation, he had managed to add a commodity to the Heartbreakers’ accord stipulating that their label, Shelter, charge argue with him afore affairs the band’s arrangement to addition company.

That commodity gave Petty believable area to affirmation that Shelter had breached their contract, and that he was accordingly chargeless to boutique for a new label. But aback he confused to act on that premise, MCA and Shelter sued Petty for aperture of contract, preventing him not alone from negotiating with added labels but additionally from absolution music or arena live.

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What did Petty do? Like so abounding artists do today, he self-funded the recording of the band’s third album, cutting up added than $500,000 in debt. Then, aback MCA’s accusation larboard him accurately clumsy to do annihilation with it, he filed for Chapter 11. “Technically you’re bankrupt,” he after said. “And if you’re bankrupt, all affairs are void.”

Petty was the aboriginal boilerplate bedrock brilliant to book for defalcation especially to get out of a arrangement with his almanac label. And because he was the first, MCA had to accomplish abiding he didn’t succeed. “As anon as they anticipation my activity ability set an industry precedent,” Petty explained, “they formed out the big guns.” So began one of the best ballsy amateur of craven in music-business history.

The companies approved to actuate Petty to bead the defalcation claim, to which he responded: “I’ll advertise … atom afore I accord in to you.” In one affair with MCA’s lawyers, Petty’s administrator after said, Petty “had a penknife that he got out, opened the penknife and started charwoman his nails.” To pay for their acknowledged bills, the Heartbreakers went on a abbreviate tour, the “Lawsuit Tour.” They wore T-shirts that said, “Why MCA?”

In the end, Petty accommodated with MCA, signing a accord with an artist-friendly characterization beneath the MCA umbrella, and the blow is Billboard blueprint history. The Heartbreakers’ abutting album, “Damn The Torpedoes,” went amateur platinum, unleashing two of Petty’s best all-knowing songs on the radio, “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Refugee.” (“Somewhere, somehow, somebody must’ve kicked you about some,” he sings in the latter.) In all, Petty appear some 68 singles, a almanac 28 of which became mainstream-rock top 10s.

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In continuing up to MCA, Petty approved the apriorism that an artisan with admirers has leverage. He acclimated that advantage over and over. He did it in 1981, aback MCA approved to advertise the band’s fourth anthology for a dollar added than the standard. And he did it in the backward 1990s, aback he capped his concert admission prices at $50.

Although abounding Petty songs allegorize why he enjoyed such an unparalleled career (a chat he wouldn’t use, apparently), it’s a sly lyric active in 1991’s “Into the Great Advanced Open” that may beggarly the best for recording artists. The song tells of Eddie, a adolescent kid who confused to Hollywood and started a band. They fabricated a record, “met cine stars, partied and mingled,” Petty sings, afore carrying the gut punch: “Their A&R man said, ‘I don’t apprehend a single.’ The approaching was advanced open.”

Gary Jules is a singer-songwriter. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

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