Each Year’s Best Song: 1989

Tom Petty Taught Us About Regret Without Even Using the Word

Free Fallin’ isn’t just a classic song, but a lesson in living

Eddie Becker
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6 min readMar 25, 2022

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Full Moon Fever album cover art, edited with Prisma

I want to get this out of the way early in this write-up of Each Year’s Best Song, 1989 edition. I’m writing about Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’, and I want to make sure we are all playing…

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Eddie Becker
The Riff

Writer published on sites such as Bleacher Report, Relevant Magazine, and The Good Men Project. | Top Writer in Music, also writing on Humor, Faith, Poetry, etc