Tom Petty's 'Into The Great Wide Open'

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Imagine gaining and then losing all of your fame before you were 20.Eddies background is that he graduated high school ,then moves to Hollywood ,then tries to earn fame.Tom Petty’s native poem,”Into the Great Wide Open”,tells a story of a young rockstar, That involves a changing tone, and is told in a unrealistic tone.
“Into the Great Wide Open” outlines the high and low points of Eddie the Young Rockstar.Eddie was young.He waited until he graduated high school to move to Hollywood.Eddie was only 18, he met a girl after he got a tattoo, she had on too.Eddie and this girl moved into a home just after meeting 2-3 months ago.He got a job but it was not that ordinary of a job. His job was to be a bouncer at the nightclub, when Eddie was not working his roommate taught him how to play guitar.

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