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PEOPLE, Page 83Petty's Peace
By MICHAEL QUINN
As violence devoured Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney
King case acquittals, they leaped into action . . . no, not
Daryl Gates and the L.A. Police -- TOM PETTY & the
Heartbreakers. Their Peace in L.A. single was produced even as
the uprising unfolded about them. "I was watching the TV," says
Petty. "I was upset by it. I could either pace around the room
or write a song." In a morning, Petty penned an ominous rock
dirge that condemns the results of the police-brutality trial
even as it calls for calm ("We all feel betrayed/ But we've got
to be strong"). By mid-afternoon the band was recording the
song, which arrived at radio stations a day later. "I left the
mastering lab and heard it over the air driving home." Earnings
from Peace in L.A. will help rebuild the city.