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Petty was an MTV staple prior to Southern Accents. I remember the mournful, Mad Max-style "You Got Lucky" video being in almost constant rotation in the fall of 1982 and well into 1983. His music seemed to slot in just as comfortably with the ostensibly authentic retro-Americana of Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp as the cheerfully ephemeral pop modernism of The Cars and 80s-era ZZ Top, this adaptability a product of styling as much as substance.