<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "I Won't Back Down" is a song by American rock musician Tom Petty . It was released in April 1989 as the lead single from his first solo album, Full Moon Fever . The song was written by Petty and Jeff Lynne, his writing partner for the album . It reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Album Rock Tracks chart for five weeks, starting the album's road to multi-platinum status . </P> <P> Petty recalled the recording of this song to Mojo magazine: "At the session George Harrison sang and played the guitar . I had a terrible cold that day, and George went to the store and bought a ginger root, boiled it and had me stick my head in the pot to get the ginger steam to open up my sinuses, and then I ran in and did the take ." </P>

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