Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’ and Tom Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’
And now Sam Smith is sharing royalties with Tom, who is being very gracious about it all because Tom’s one of the true good guys in the music business.
“About the Sam Smith thing. Let me say I have never had any hard feelings toward Sam. All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen. Most times you catch it before it gets out the studio door but in this case it got by. Sam’s people were very understanding of our predicament and we easily came to an agreement. The word lawsuit was never even said and was never my intention.
Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” and Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”
Just to clarify:
The Tom Petty song is here slightly rearranged to go along the Sam Smith song.
There are actually pieces missing from the Petty song.
They do not exactly line up like this!
However aside from the tempo and pitch, no alterations have been made to what you hear.
… and then I have to post the real version because I love this song, and how it’s held me up when I’ve started to fall in the past. Also take note of Tom rocking the SW steampunk hat well before that became popular.