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Tom Petty looked back on an infamous concert in an interview from over 40 years ago. In a resurfaced interview part of Cameron Crowe's documentary Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, Petty ...
Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks collaborated on the 1981 songs "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and "Insider" Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.
The late rocker recalled the fight in Cameron Crowe's documentary 'Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party' Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.
Mike Campbell is ready to shed some light on his complicated friendship with the late Tom Petty. As a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Campbell had a front-row seat to the ...
Well, you got lucky, babe, when Tom Petty found the song in 1982 and breathed surprise anew into it. A newly unearthed music video for the song shows Petty and his Heartbreakers stomping their ...
Tom Petty’s closest musical partner is lifting the lid on his untold life in an extraordinary book released Tuesday. “Well, first of all, I told the truth. And second of all, I would take ...
A 1982 profile helmed by music journalist-turned-filmmaker Cameron Crowe about Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers has in 2025 resurfaced from obscurity to stream on Paramount+. Well, maybe not ...
Throughout their decades-long tenure together, Tom Petty, his lead guitarist and co-writer Mike Campbell, and their band, the Heartbreakers, had no small shortage of career-defining hits.
In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville, Fla., cover band called Mudcrutch ...
Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell explained why he never confronted his bandleader Tom Petty before Petty’s 2017 death from an accidental drug overdose. “I don’t torture myself [over ...
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 ...
Tom Petty was always going to lead with honesty and integrity, even if that meant biting the hand that fed him. He often displayed this trait when it came to battles with his record companies over ...