05. "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty (and Jeff Lynne and George Harrison and...Ringo Starr?)
I wouldn't say that this is my official theme song. That honor belongs to Billy Joel's "You May Be Right." But I will claim it as my official fight song. It's been a source of comfort and inspiration through the last four jobs that I've had to walk away from, including the time I got fired by Jesus.
The video shows Jeff Lynne and George Harrison on back-up vocals, which they actually sang on the recording. They also played guitars on the song with Lynne on bass and Harrison on an acoustic guitar. The video also shows Ringo Starr on the drums. But he didn't play them on the recording--the kind of music video fakery that would normally annoy me, but the original drummer didn't show up for the video shoot, so George called up Ringo, who promptly came to the rescue. And since Ringo is the most entertaining person to watch on the video, all is forgiven. Lynne wrote the song with Petty, which I think is why I like the song so much. I'm actually not much of a Petty fan. But if you team him up with Lynne and a Beatle or two, I'm in.
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