Eddie's Song 'Into The Great Wide Open'

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How many people move to Hollywood and actually become famous from singing, this is a song with a character named Eddie and the song was made by Tom Petty. After arriving in Hollywood California at the age of 18. He got a tattoo and he met a girl who taught him guitar, and so the sky was the limit for him.”Into the Great Wide Open”, a story by Tom Petty, explains the life of a rockstar, using a changing tone, in a believable way. “Into the Great Wide Open” tells the rise and fall of Eddie, a young man with fame and stardom. Eddie finished high school at the age of 18 and after he went to Hollywood. He met a girl out there and they both moved into a place they could afford. He started working at a nightclub as a bouncer to pay for the place …show more content…
The beginning of the story starts off positive, because he just finished High School and moved to Hollywood. He meets a girl out there and she teaches him guitar. He also got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub, so he could support the place his girlfriend and him live in. Later in the story he makes a song and it hits the charts and he ends up partying with movie stars. However the tone takes a negative approach when he gets fired by the A and R man. He got to ahead of himself and went out and bought fancy clothes. He wasn’t making anymore singles and that's why he got fired. Now he wonders what he should do now with his life. Finally, Tom Petty’s description of Eddie’s meteoric rise and fall is pretty far-fetched. Its realistic that Eddie found a girlfriend when he moved to Hollywood. Also him getting a job as a bouncer at a nightclub sounds realistic. When he climbed his way up to fame as a singer right out of high school. A lso when he lost everything from making one mistake in his career. Plus he is basically a one hit wonder in the sense that he only made one and only song that mattered, and he got fired right after it from getting to caught up in the fame. The story that explains the life of a rockstar is portrayed with a changing tone in a believable way from Tom Petty’s “Intro the Great Wide Open”. Eddie and Britany Spears are similar in a way that

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