“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 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 ...

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 ...