The Jayhawks were the opening act for Petty's tour in 1992 and keyboardist Benmont Tench played on both "Waiting for the Sun" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance". The main riff in Petty's song, however, resembles the main riff in another song called "Waiting for the Sun" which was released in 1992 by The Jayhawks. Petty responded by saying that he was not going to sue the Chili Peppers and felt that there was no negative intent and that a lot of rock and roll songs sound alike. Longtime Petty and Chili Peppers producer Rick Rubin produced both songs. In 2006, a US radio station claimed that Red Hot Chili Peppers hit single, " Dani California" had plagiarized "Mary Jane's Last Dance", even calling for Petty to sue the band. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1994. I'd probably keep her for a day or two, let's go see if she would do it." You can make a joke about it, but you have to act a bit to be dead. I said, "She's got to look really good, or why would he keep her around after she's dead?" I thought, "Kim Basinger would be good. At the end of the video, Basinger, who is seen floating in the water, opens her eyes. Later, Petty is shown carrying her to a rocky shore (a scene filmed at Leo Carrillo State Park in California) and gently releasing her into the sea.
The plot also has similarities with the 1970 Charles Bukowski short story "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California", which had already inspired the 1987 Belgian film Crazy Love and the 1991 French film Cold Moon.
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A scene in the video featuring the dead woman wearing a wedding dress in a room full of wax candles is loosely based on a passage from the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. He then acts as if she were alive, putting her in front of a television set and then dressing her as a bride, sitting her at the dinner table and dancing with her. The music video for the song features Petty as a morgue assistant who takes home a beautiful dead woman (played by Kim Basinger). JSTOR ( September 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song." In the rest of the interview, Campbell said that the song was originally titled "Indiana Girl" and the first chorus began, "Hey, Indiana Girl, go out and find the world." He added that Petty "just couldn't get behind singing about 'hey, Indiana Girl,'" so he changed the chorus a week later. My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. 5 in Canada.Īsked if the song was about drugs, Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell said, "In the verse there is still the thing about an Indiana girl on an Indiana night, just when it gets to the chorus he had the presence of mind to give it a deeper meaning. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard top-20 hit of the 1990s, and also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks. This song was first released as part of the Greatest Hits album in 1993. The sessions would prove to be the last to include drummer Stan Lynch before his eventual departure in 1994. It was recorded while Petty was recording his Wildflowers album and was produced by Rick Rubin, guitarist Mike Campbell, and Petty. " Mary Jane's Last Dance" is a song written by Tom Petty and recorded by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology
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