Mike Campbell doesn’t cry when he talks about the early-morning phone call that told him Tom Petty, his bandleader and best friend of nearly 50 years, had just been rushed to the hospital. The Heartbreakers guitarist doesn’t cry when he remembers playing to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl with Petty one …
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Tom Petty‘s family and former collaborators compiled a four-CD box set of previously unreleased material by Petty and the Heartbreakers, for release on September 28th, SiriusXM announced. The release, calledAn American Treasure, marks the first posthumous album of Petty material since his death in October. The SiriusXM broadcast debuted a …
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Ryan Adams, a longtime musical disciple of Tom Petty, remembered the singer’s artistry and ingenuity in a statement on Tuesday. Petty died on Monday at age 66. “Tom Petty wrote a song called ‘Even the Losers’ that I would sneak into an otherwise-deserted bar after school and listen to the …
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