is the black-and-white striped satin jacket he donned on the cover of the UK single for his 1978 hit, “Listen to Her Heart.” “For people my age, that’s Tom Petty, you know,” Bobby ...

Tom Petty was a massive ... a line of white Cadillacs and mohair suits and pompadours so black, they were blue.” After this meeting, Petty was all-in on his dream of becoming a musician. “ ...

One summer morning in 1961, an 11-year-old Tom Petty sat ... already gained young Tom's fascination: the rubber suit worn by the creature in "Return of the Creature from the Black Lagoon," which ...

Benmont Tench first met Tom Petty in a Gainesville ... it until he was shown what had been captured on the beautiful black and white film. “Mostly, I enjoyed hearing Tom talking about the ...

who documented much of the the recording process on 16mm black-and-white film. When that footage was unearthed recently, Adria Petty (Tom’s daughter) and producer Peter Afterman sought out Mary ...

Jazz Aspen announced yesterday that Neil Young and Tom Petty, two more acts that have long been in festival ... just three U.S. shows on their reunion tour; country singer Clint Black, making an ...

Wixen Music Publishing, which owns works by Tom Petty, Neil Young, Weezer ... Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen ...

When Tom Petty and the ... during a previous tour. Petty said in 1985 that when writing the opening track, “Rebel,” he was “just thinking about the average young guy down there who is ...

The idea for a new unauthorized Tom Petty biography came from a surprising ... about this is putting a bad example out there for young people. If anyone is going to think heroin is an option ...

Tom Petty, who died Monday ... “Into the Great Wide Open,” with Petty opening a book to reveal a story. This one, though, is animated with black and white images inspired by Winsor McCay ...