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- <text id=92TT1072>
- <title>
- May 18, 1992: Petty's Peace
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 18, 1992 Roger Keith Coleman:Due to Die
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 83
- Petty's Peace
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By MICHAEL QUINN
- </p>
- <p> As violence devoured Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney
- King case acquittals, they leaped into action . . . no, not
- Daryl Gates and the L.A. Police -- TOM PETTY & the
- Heartbreakers. Their Peace in L.A. single was produced even as
- the uprising unfolded about them. "I was watching the TV," says
- Petty. "I was upset by it. I could either pace around the room
- or write a song." In a morning, Petty penned an ominous rock
- dirge that condemns the results of the police-brutality trial
- even as it calls for calm ("We all feel betrayed/ But we've got
- to be strong"). By mid-afternoon the band was recording the
- song, which arrived at radio stations a day later. "I left the
- mastering lab and heard it over the air driving home." Earnings
- from Peace in L.A. will help rebuild the city.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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