At some point, Campbell walked out on the sessions. Wilson and Phil Seymour of the Dwight Twilley Band proved fruitless. But he was brought back when attempts to record the song with Procol Harum's B.J. Of particular concern were the drums on "Refugee." Warren Zanes' biography Petty notes that 70 takes were recorded, which led to Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch being fired during the sessions. Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'Refugee' VideoĪfter the garage-rock approach of the first two Heartbreakers albums, Iovine's method through the band for a loop. We got those two songs, we got an album.' And he was right." Then they hired Jimmy Iovine, who was on the rise after engineering Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town, and producing Patti Smith's Easter. Iovine listened to "Refugee" and "Here Comes My Girl" on the tape and, Campbell recalled, "'I don't care what else you do. The band's manager, Elliot Roberts, heard the demo and thought it was on the right track. I don't think he saw it the same way as me, where the chorus would go. "I remember writing really quickly to his tape," Petty recalled in Paul Zollo's Conversations With Tom Petty. He put that and a few other new songs on a cassette and gave it to Petty, who recognized it as something special. Realizing it was "more than just an exercise," Campbell added a bridge and built a demo using a DrumDrops track, rhythm and lead guitar and bass. Then he added two more chords - D major followed by a B major - that led back into the main progression.
So he put one of the DrumDrops beats on one track, created a progression around three chords - F-sharp minor, E major and A major - and used it as a bed over which he'd play lead. Inspired by a new Gibson Les Paul gold top and Albert King's 1966 Stax classic "Oh, Pretty Woman," Campbell wanted to practice soloing in the key of F-sharp minor.
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