With his long blond hair and high cheekbones, Tom Petty looked like a central-casting rock star. The nasal whine of his voice, propensity to pick fights with the music industry, and loyalty to the ...

Tom Petty is one of the greatest American songwriters. With a seemingly effortless ability, Petty wrote songs that felt like you knew from birth, yet they were songs you wanted to sing over and over ...

Tom Petty’s 1993 Greatest Hits compilation may have been a fan-pleasing collection of prime cuts, but as far as Petty was concerned it was a contract breaker and nothing more. Eager to leave MCA ...

For all the great heartland rock songs in history, Tom Petty was able to pump them out faster than his record company could ...

Rod Stewart nearly cast aside ‘Maggy May’, The Clash thought ‘Train in Vain’ would flop, and Tom Petty required divine ...

This is one of Tom Petty’s most well-known songs, and certainly one of his greatest songs of all time. It’s a track that manages to fuse so many different types of rock music into a single anthemic ...

And up for auction is a wall of vinyl records, which seems like they were tucked away in a meeting room somewhere — 24 of what the auction site dubbed as “Twitter Essentials,” which evidently includes ...

I think about Tom Petty a lot. But in October, I think about him a little bit more. This month marks two important Tom Petty milestones— it’s the seventh anniversary of his death (Oct. 2), and the ...

Tom Petty’s been gone for seven years, but he seems as ubiquitous as ever in 2024. The concert film Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, directed by Cameron Crowe and aired on MTV just once in 1983, ...