“Of all the songs I've written, I think I get the most feedback about that song,” Tom Petty said of “I Won’t Back Down” in the Peter Bogdanovich documentary Runnin’ Down a Dream. “And it is a personal ...

The Florida-born rock and roll songwriter and performer Tom Petty is one of the greats when it comes to American music. Throughout his career, Petty worked and collaborated with many big-name artists, ...

The recent news that Jeff Lynne was forced to cancel the final scheduled concert by ELO saddened music fans everywhere. But Lynne put out a message not long after, saying that he still planned to work ...

But Petty didn’t just lead a band called The Heartbreakers. They were Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Petty’s name was already on every album he’d ever released, so casual listeners would be forgiven ...

"I [used] a pill bottle with a ridge on it — One A Day vitamins, I think," he explained in the same Guitar Player interview. It wasn't exactly what they were looking for though: "We decided that the ...

Gainesville honored its hometown hero Tom Petty with a three-day festival featuring many of his friends and The Wallflowers ...

Today, the Tom Petty Estate has opened the vaults again to preview another tribute to the dearly departed troubadour. In partnership with Genesis Publications, the estate has announced Tom Petty: ...

Petty was so excited to find the hook, he called the band back in the studio to remake the song — at four in the morning ...