As the 1970s came to a close, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers enjoyed immense success with their previous album, Damn the Torpedoes. However, the benefits of fame came with hidden costs. Long periods ...
Mike Campbell was a longtime lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Campbell's memoir, "Heartbreaker," was ...
"You couldn't talk Tom into anything," Campbell says of the rock icon, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017.
Of Petty's drug use, he said, "My conscious is clear because Tom knew that I knew, and Tom knew that I wasn't forcing him and getting in his face about it. We had this invisible understanding ...
They were the very beginning. “I’m Tom Petty.” From the couch, the guitarist stood and said hi. He was tall, with a handsome, boyish Irish face and long brown hair. He said his name was Tom too.
‘But I’m Tom Petty. I’m going to do whatever I f—ing want. Get out of my face.’” Campbell suggested that “the sides of [Petty’s] personality” always made it challenging to get ...
Tom Petty was always going to lead with honesty ... His actions fly in the face of the conformity all around him: ‘Cause you just can’t do what he did / There’s some things you just can ...
Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees. Led Zeppelin and Tom Petty tributes. Bluegrass legend Del McCoury. They're all onstage this ...
“‘But I’m Tom Petty. I’m going to do whatever I f**king want. Get out of my face.’” He continued, “Tom made his own decisions about what he wanted, even to the last tour. That was ...
It’s a little more than a decade since Benmont Tench released his debut solo LP, You Should Be So Lucky, but for the Tom Petty and the ... where you can see the face of every person?