DEF: Tom Petty “I Won’t Back Down”

Gainesville, Florida-born musician Tom Petty‘s 1989 album Full Moon Fever produced three Top 40 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, including his biggest hit, “Free Fallin’.” On this date in 1989, the first of those three Top 40 hits, “I Won’t Back Down,” climbed to a peak position of number 12, where it would spend one week. “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.