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_Full Moon Fever_, Petty’s first solo album without his band, the Heartbreakers, features the hits “Free Fallin’,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and “Yer So Bad.” After his


record label rejected it, Petty refused to budge, and instead of scrapping the album, he waited for a regime change. “I came back and I played them the same record, and they were overjoyed.


It turned out to be a huge hit,” he told _Esquire _magazine in 2006.