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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: "Southern Accents" documentary
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This is a half-hour documentary special I produced and directed for MTV in 1986.
Tom Petty’s hand had finally healed (after he’d broken it in a fit of frustrated pique caused by his inability to complete the long-gestating “Southern Accents” album) and the band was anxious to play. We captured the Heartbreaker’s very first live show in years – an impromptu concert on the roof of the Don Ce Sar hotel in St. Petersburg (a rather obvious tribute to the Beatles' "Let It Be").
But first -- we journeyed to Tom’s hometown of Gainesville, FL and retraced the band’s early days. Charles M. Young of Rolling Stone conducted a far-reaching interview with Tom, and for good measure we visited the set of one of the new “Alice In Wonderland” – themed music videos produced for the record’s release.
The show became the template for the later “Rockumentary” series, and features some guest-editing by Steven Soderbergh!
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Rock
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Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Route 66, music documentary, Richard Schenkman, Southern Accent, Don Ce Sar, rock n' roll, documentary, MTV, Steven Soderbergh, alligators, Eagles, Florida, St. Petersburg, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Heartbreakers, Tom Petty
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