The 80s proved to be a productive, turbulent, career-altering decade for Tom Petty. He released four studio LPs with the Heartbreakers and then punctuated the decade with his first solo album. Petty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform live at The Palladium in New York on November 11, 1979. (Credit: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns ...

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 ...

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 — played one of his ...

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, ...