“I played that lick and went home. An hour later, the phone rang. Tom said, ‘You’ve got to come back. We want to put that lick you played at the front of the song’”: How Mike Campbell's throwaway lick shaped a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers classic

Mike Campbell (left) and Tom Petty (1950 - 2017), both of the group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, play guitar as they perform onstage at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March 31, 1983.

Mike Campbell and Tom Petty only had two guitars during the band’s first two album cycles.

Despite their limitations, the dynamic duo managed to co-write some pretty timeless hits, including the sultry slow-rocker, Breakdown – the first single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album, released in 1976, and their first Top 40 hit in the States.