As he celebrates the release of his memoir, Heartbreaker, Tom Petty’s right-hand man and dear friend reflects on a career’s ...

Tom Petty might have kept things fairly straightforward throughout his career, but he knew that there were many rock stars ...

Songs tend to always feel like the writer's children, but Tom Petty hated this Heartbreakers tune and would have preferred if ...

Tom Petty added to his legacy of excellence after 2000. That included these six brilliant slow songs from his later period.

When he was alive, I had a quip about a typical Tom Petty record: It’s 30 percent great, 50 percent good, and 20 percent filler. In my book Twilight Of The Gods — written before he died and ...

Tom Petty might have had a strong admiration and respect for British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, but he hated them in ...

I told Tom that, and he got really happy about it.” “I don’t think we could have made this record 15 or even 10 years ago,” Petty told me bluntly that night, clearly in agreement with ...

And we made the record, but then Covid hit ... Are you able to imagine a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers biopic? Hey, who knows? Anything that happen. But it did not cross my mind at all.

At the start of 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a struggling band on the brink of something big. In quick succession, they landed a fresh record contract, started writing promising new ...

that there’s a more extensive vision for the record that Tom was speaking about in “Running Down a Dream” (Peter Bogdanovich’s Petty documentary). And it was noted by him in our archives a ...

“It’s always been real hard for the record industry to understand us,” the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist says in 1982 of his work. Watching Beach Party in 2025, Tom Petty & the ...