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Tom Petty

photo: WENN

When MCA rejected Tom Petty’s first solo album on the grounds that they didn’t think it had any marketable singles, Petty just started another band. He formed The Traveling Wilburys, which was distributed independently in 1989. The MCA suits who rejected his initial solo album were gone by the time Petty returned. The unmarketable album in question, Full Moon River, sold five million copies.

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