Kevin Bacon's Tom Petty and Jimmy Fallon perform, rewrite the history of 'Free Fallin''
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This is one of those Tonight Show sketches where you wish they'd also release video of the pitch meeting where this idea was hatched and hammered out. On Monday's show, Kevin Bacon showed that his acting and singing skills extend to a very solid Tom Petty impersonation and Jimmy Fallon joined him dressed as Mike Campbell, Petty's long-time collaborator and guitarist. The song is the 1989 Petty hit "Free Fallin'," but since this is one of Fallon's VH1-style "First Drafts of Rock" passion projects, you won't recognize most of the lyrics. Watch below, and pay special attention to Fallon's growing frustration as Bacon's Petty just ignores the band's buildup to the chorus.