Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded "Mary Jane's Last Dance" in 1993. The song earned Tom the best male video award at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards. Tom was presented with the highest honor in the production of a music video, the Video Vanguard Award, which highlighted the evening.

On October 20,1950 Tom Petty was born. In 1961, at the age of eleven, he met Elvis. Elvis, "The King" was in Florida to film the movie "Follow that Dream." Right then and there Tom decided to follow his own dream to be a rock star. Tom recalled, in Rolling Stone Magazine, "That day was the end of doing anything other then music with my life. I didn't want anything to fall back on because I was not going to fall back (Tom Petty Online Magazine)." The very next day Tom traded his Wham-O slingshot for a friend's set of records, which included Elvis, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Tom Petty was a marvelous musician who began his career in Gainesville, Florida. In high school Tom

I think that this song was relevant to the time period because of the title and it coming to the point of closer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. "Mary Jane's Last Dance" means to me that it was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Last Dance". This song was one of two songs written for their Greatest Hits album ending the groups' time together.

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