“Don't Come Around Here No More” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

"Don't Come Around Here No More" kicked off the Southern Accents era for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1985 as the album's lead single on MCA, and it's a full-on psychedelic curveball. Blame Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, who wrote it with Petty and produced it alongside him and Jimmy Iovine. The seed was a night at Stevie Nicks's house after a Eurythmics show in Los Angeles: Petty had nudged the two of them to write together, Nicks supplied the title phrase, and Stewart woke at 5 a.m. to find her trying on Victorian clothes, a scene straight out of Alice in Wonderland by his telling. He cut a demo on a Portastudio soon after.

The finished record is a hall of mirrors, with Stewart on sitar and keyboards, Daniel Rothmuller on cello, Benmont Tench on keys, Mike Campbell on guitar and Stan Lynch on drums.

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