LOS ANGELES – AUGUST 1977: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers pose for a portrait backstage in August 1977 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell looks back fondly on his work with Tom Petty.

Campbell told ‘Salon,’ “One thing I’m really especially proud of in my years and with Tom and now with my band is the songs. A good song will age well. In the Heartbreakers, a lot of the songs I wrote with Tom—”Runnin’ Down A Dream,” “A Woman in Love,” so many of them — “Here Comes My Girl,” they age well.”

He continued, “You can hear them years later, and they can still get the feeling and be affected by them. We were fortunate that we had a good catalog of songs, I think better than most bands over that much time.”

Campbell continued, “Songs are gifts. They’re magic. Where do they come from? But if you get a good one, you’re very fortunate.”

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