Don't Come Around Here No More Explained

Don't Come Around Here No More
Artist:Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Album:Southern Accents
B-Side:"Trailer"
Released:February 28, 1985
Format:7"
Recorded:1984
Genre:Rock
Length:4:19
Label:MCA
Producer:Tom Petty, David A. Stewart, Jimmy Iovine
Last Single:"Change of Heart"
(1983)
This Single:"Don't Come Around Here No More"
(1985)
Next Single:"Make It Better (Forget About Me)"
(1985)

"Don't Come Around Here No More" is the third track on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1985 album Southern Accents and one of Tom Petty's biggest hits. It was a collaboration with David A. Stewart of Eurythmics.

Music video

The music video is themed around Alice in Wonderland and was directed by Jeff Stein. Tom Petty performed in the video dressed as The Mad Hatter and actress Wish Foley played Alice. Dave Stewart appears at the beginning, sitting on a mushroom with a hookah water pipe. On The Howard Stern Show, Dave Stewart explained that the title's phrase was actually uttered by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. She had broken up with Joe Walsh the night before, and invited Dave Stewart to her place for a party after an early Eurythmics show in L.A. Dave didn't know who she was at the time, but went anyway. When the party goers all disappeared to a bathroom for a couple of hours to snort cocaine, he decided to go upstairs to bed. He woke up at 5am to find Stevie Nicks in his room trying on Victorian clothing and described the entire scenario as very much reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. Later that morning, she told Joe Walsh, "Don't come around here no more".