Petty didn’t feel that the singer took over the performance in any way and thought George would have loved it. RELATED: George Harrison’s Son Said Tom Petty’s Death Was Just as Painful as His Father’s Death Petty thought George would’ve liked Prince’s soloĭespite Petty’s stern-looking face during the performance, he was actually quite happy with Prince’s solo. We hadn’t been told that he was playing and then suddenly the promoter said, ‘He’s playing with you, and that’s final.’ So there was a lot of tension, like what is this?“ Being the youngest Wilbury, they stuck me in between them and Prince to kind of be the buffer zone. “I said to Tom, ‘He’s being really nice, but he’s gonna come and blow us offstage later.’ And they said whatever, it’s gonna be great, whatever he does is going to be brilliant-it’s Prince, so obviously we’re not going to stop him. “He turned up at soundcheck and he was really nice, very shy, but I was the only one that was talking to him, and I got the sense that he was holding back, he wasn’t gonna play like that in the real thing,” Dhani told Esquire. Later on, Prince told a friend that he “half-gased” it during rehearsals to surprise everyone during his solo. He stood idly by and let another guitarist take all the guitar solos, which worried Gallen. The Purple One hardly rehearsed with Petty and the rest. Prince agreed to perform, but he was concerned about who would “own the performance.” Gallen said, “He wanted to make sure that his performance was not exploited without his knowledge.” I wrote basically a personal letter to Prince, care of his lawyer,” Gallen told the New York Times. “My dream right from the start was, imagine if I can get everybody up onstage at the end of the night to do ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps,’ and Prince comes out and does the guitar solos. The producer and director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, Joel Gallen, wrote to Prince and asked if he’d join Petty and Lynne during George’s induction performance. Tom Petty and Prince | KMazur/WireImage Tom Petty didn’t know Prince was going to do a solo during George Harrison’s induction performance Petty thought George would have liked it too. Then, he threw his guitar out into the audience where it seemed to disappear. Suddenly, he belted out a face-melting three-minute guitar solo that no one expected.
Then they, along with George’s only son, Dhani, took to the stage to perform George’s epic Beatles tune, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Although, there was a surprise guest. In 2004, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne inducted their fellow Traveling Wilbury, George Harrison, into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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