“Tom listened to it and said, ‘It sounds kind of jazzy.’ I went back and changed the chorus, and that’s the version I played for Don”: Mike Campbell on writing The Boys of Summer with Don Henley – after Tom Petty passed on it

Mike Campbell of the Dirty Knobs, in hat, shades, guitar in hand.

Mike Campbell may be best known as Tom Petty’s right-hand man in the Heartbreakers, but as the 1980s dawned, the electric guitar icon began working with Fleetwood Mac and Eagles royalty.

With Stevie Nicks, he played on a quartet of albums during that period, and featured on a further four over the following decades. For Don Henley, his songwriting can be heard on 1984's Building the Perfect Beast and The End of the Innocence, and he also featured on records by Bob Dylan, the Eurhythmics, and Warren Zevon among many others during a restless 10-year-spell.