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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist.

Tom Petty
Petty performing in Denmark in 2012
Background information
Birth nameThomas Earl Petty
Also known as
  • Charlie T. Wilbury Jr.
  • Muddy Wilbury
Born(1950-10-20)October 20, 1950
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
DiedOctober 2, 2017(2017-10-02) (aged 66)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • harmonica
DiscographyTom Petty discography
Years active1967–2017
Labels
Formerly of
Websitetompetty.com
Signature

Over the course of his career, Petty sold more than 80 million albums. His hit singles with the Heartbreakers include "American Girl" (1976), "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979), "Refugee" (1980), "The Waiting" (1981), "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985) and "Learning to Fly" (1991). Petty's solo hits include "I Won't Back Down" (1989), "Free Fallin'" (1989), and "You Don't Know How It Feels" (1994).

Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy.[1] He also acted; he had a recurring role as the voice of Lucky Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill from 2004 to the show's end in 2009.[2]

Petty died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017 at the age of 66, one week after the end of the Heartbreakers' 40th Anniversary Tour.[3][4]

Early life edit

Petty was born on October 20, 1950, in Gainesville, Florida, the first of two sons of Kitty Petty (nee Avery), a local tax office worker, and Earl Petty, who was a traveling salesman.[5][6][7] His brother Bruce was seven years younger.[5]

Petty grew up in the Northeast Gainesville Residential District, known locally as the Duckpond. After his death, a historical marker was placed in the neighborhood and a nearby park was renamed to Tom Petty Park.[8]

His interest in rock and roll music began at age ten when he met Elvis Presley.[9]

In the summer of 1961, his uncle was working on the set of Presley's film Follow That Dream, in nearby Ocala, and invited Petty to watch the shoot.[10] He instantly became a Presley fan, and when he returned that Saturday, he was greeted by his friend Keith Harben, and soon traded his Wham-O slingshot for a collection of Elvis 45s.[11] Of that meeting with Presley, Petty said, "Elvis glowed."[12]

In a 2006 interview he said he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.[13] "The minute I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show—and it's true of thousands of guys—there was the way out. There was the way to do it. You get your friends and you're a self-contained unit. And you make the music. And it looked like so much fun. It was something I identified with. I had never been hugely into sports. ... I had been a big fan of Elvis. But I really saw in the Beatles that here's something I could do. I knew I could do it. It wasn't long before there were groups springing up in garages all over the place."[14][6] He later said that the Rolling Stones inspired him by demonstrating that he and musicians like him could make it in rock and roll.[15]

Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident who later joined the Eagles, claimed in his autobiography that he was one of Petty's first guitar teachers[16][17] although Petty said that Felder taught him to play piano instead.[18] As a young man, Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew of the University of Florida, but never attended as a student. An Ogeechee lime tree that he purportedly planted while employed at the university is now called the Tom Petty tree (Petty stated that he did not recall planting any trees).[19][20][18] He also worked briefly as a gravedigger.[18]

Career edit

1976–1987: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers edit

Shortly after embracing his musical aspirations, Petty started a band known as the Epics, which later evolved into Mudcrutch. The band included future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench and was popular in Gainesville, but their recordings went unnoticed by a mainstream audience. They recorded at The Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their only single, "Depot Street", released in 1975 by Shelter Records, failed to chart.[21]

After Mudcrutch split up, Petty reluctantly agreed to pursue a solo career. Tench decided to form his own group, whose sound Petty appreciated. Eventually, Petty and Campbell collaborated with Tench, Ron Blair and Stan Lynch, forming the first lineup of the Heartbreakers. Their eponymous debut album gained little popularity amongst American audiences, achieving greater success in Britain[citation needed]. The singles "American Girl" and "Breakdown" (re-released in 1977) peaked at No. 40 after the band toured in the United Kingdom in support of Nils Lofgren. The debut album was released by Shelter Records, which at that time was distributed by ABC Records.[22]

 
Petty (center) with the Heartbreakers, 1977

Their second album, You're Gonna Get It!, was the band's first Top 40 album,[22] featuring the singles "I Need to Know" and "Listen to Her Heart". Their third album, Damn the Torpedoes, quickly went platinum, selling nearly two million copies; it includes their breakthrough singles "Don't Do Me Like That", "Here Comes My Girl", "Even the Losers" and "Refugee".[23]

In September 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at a Musicians United for Safe Energy concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.[24] Their rendition of "Cry to Me" was featured on the resulting album, No Nukes.[25]

Their fourth album, Hard Promises, released in 1981, became a top-ten hit, going platinum and spawning the hit single "The Waiting". The album also featured Petty's first duet, "Insider" with Stevie Nicks.[26]

Bass player Ron Blair quit the group and was replaced on the fifth album, Long After Dark (1982), by Howie Epstein; the resulting lineup lasted until 1994. The album contained the hit "You Got Lucky". In 1985, the band participated in Live Aid, playing four songs at John F. Kennedy Stadium, in Philadelphia. Southern Accents was also released in 1985. This album included the hit single "Don't Come Around Here No More", which was produced by Dave Stewart. The song's video featured Petty dressed as the Mad Hatter, mocking and chasing Alice from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then cutting and eating her as if she were a cake. The ensuing tour led to the live album Pack Up the Plantation: Live! and an invitation from Bob Dylan—Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers joined him on his True Confessions Tour. They also played some dates with the Grateful Dead in 1986 and 1987. Also in 1987, the group released Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) which includes "Jammin' Me" which Petty wrote with Dylan.[27]

1988–1991: Traveling Wilburys and solo career edit

In 1988, Petty, along with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne, was a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. The band's first song, "Handle with Care", was intended as a B-side of one of Harrison's singles, but was judged too good for that purpose and the group decided to record a full album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. A second Wilburys album, mischievously titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 and recorded without the recently deceased Orbison, followed in 1990. The album was named Vol. 3 as a response to a series of bootlegged studio sessions being sold as Travelling Wilburys Vol. 2. Petty incorporated Traveling Wilburys songs into his live shows, consistently playing "Handle with Care" in shows from 2003 to 2006, and for his 2008 tour adding "surprises" such as "End of the Line" to the set list.[28]

In 1989, Petty released Full Moon Fever, which featured hits "I Won't Back Down", "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down a Dream". It was nominally his first solo album, although several Heartbreakers and other well-known musicians participated: Mike Campbell co-produced the album with Petty and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, and backing musicians included Campbell, Lynne, and fellow Wilburys Roy Orbison and George Harrison (Ringo Starr appears on drums in the video for "I Won't Back Down", but they were actually performed by Phil Jones).[29]

Petty and the Heartbreakers reformed in 1991 and released Into the Great Wide Open, which was co-produced by Lynne and included the hit singles "Learning To Fly" and "Into the Great Wide Open", the latter featuring Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway in the music video.[30]

Before leaving MCA Records, Petty and the Heartbreakers got together to record, live in the studio, two new songs for a Greatest Hits package: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air". This was Stan Lynch's last recorded performance with the Heartbreakers. Petty commented "He left right after the session without really saying goodbye." The package went on to sell over ten million copies, therefore receiving diamond certification by the RIAA.[31]

1991–2017: Move to Warner Bros. Records edit

In 1989, while still under contract to MCA, Petty secretly signed a lucrative deal with Warner Bros. Records, to which the Traveling Wilburys had been signed.[32] His first album on his new label, 1994's Wildflowers, Petty's second of three solo albums, included the highly beloved title track,[33] as well as the singles "You Don't Know How It Feels", "You Wreck Me", "It's Good to Be King", and "A Higher Place". The album, produced by Rick Rubin, sold over three million copies in the United States.[31]

In 1996, Petty, with the Heartbreakers, released a soundtrack to the movie She's the One, starring Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston (see Songs and Music from "She's the One"). The album's singles were "Walls (Circus)" featuring Lindsey Buckingham, "Climb that Hill", and a song written by Lucinda Williams, "Change the Locks". The album also included a cover of "Asshole", a song by Beck. The same year, the band accompanied Johnny Cash on Unchained, provisionally titled "Petty Cash", for which Cash won a Grammy for Best Country Album. Cash later covered Petty's "I Won't Back Down" on American III: Solitary Man.[34]

 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performing live at the Verizon Amphitheatre, Indianapolis, 2006

In 1999, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their last album with Rubin at the helm, Echo. Two songs were released as singles in the US, "Room at the Top" and "Free Girl Now". The album reached number 10 in the US album charts.[35]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played "I Won't Back Down" at the America: A Tribute to Heroes benefit concert for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The following year, they played "Taxman", "I Need You" and "Handle with Care" (joined for the last by Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, and Jim Keltner) at the Concert for George in honor of Petty's friend and former bandmate George Harrison.[36]

Petty's 2002 release, The Last DJ, was an album-length critique of practices within the music industry.[37] The title track, inspired by Los Angeles radio personality Jim Ladd, bemoaned the end of the freedom that radio DJs once had to personally select songs for their station's playlists.[37][38] The album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States.[35]

In 2005, Petty began hosting his own show "Buried Treasure" on XM Satellite Radio, on which he shared selections from his personal record collection.[39]

 
Petty performing at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia, 2006

In 2006, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers headlined the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival as part of their "30th Anniversary Tour". Special guests included Stevie Nicks, Pearl Jam, the Allman Brothers Band, Trey Anastasio, the Derek Trucks Band, and the Black Crowes. Nicks joined Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage for several songs including "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around".[40][41]

In July 2006, Petty released a solo album titled Highway Companion, which included the hit "Saving Grace". It debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, which was Petty's highest chart position since the introduction of the Nielsen SoundScan system for tracking album sales in 1991. Highway Companion was briefly promoted on the tour with the Heartbreakers in 2006, with performances of "Saving Grace", "Square One", "Down South" and "Flirting with Time".[42]

During the summer of 2007, Petty reunited with his old bandmates Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh along with Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell to reform his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch. The quintet recorded an album of 14 songs that was released on April 29, 2008 (on iTunes, an additional song "Special Place" was available if the album was pre-ordered). The band supported the album with a brief tour of California in the spring of 2008.[43]

 
Petty performing in San Francisco, 2016

In 2007, Petty and the Heartbreakers’ contributed a cover of "I'm Walkin'" to the album Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino. The album's sales helped buy instruments for students in New Orleans public schools and contributed to the building of a community center in the city's Hurricane Katrina-damaged Ninth Ward.[44]

On February 3, 2008, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed during the halftime-show of Super Bowl XLII at the University of Phoenix Stadium. They played "American Girl", "I Won't Back Down", "Free Fallin" and "Runnin' Down a Dream".[45] That summer, the band toured North America with Steve Winwood as the opening act. Winwood joined Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage at select shows and performed his Spencer Davis Group hit "Gimme Some Lovin'", and occasionally he performed his Blind Faith hit "Can't Find My Way Home". In November 2009 the boxed set The Live Anthology, a compilation of live recordings from 1978 to 2006, was released.

The band's twelfth album Mojo was released on June 15, 2010, and reached number two on the Billboard 200 album chart.[35] Petty described the album as "Blues-based. Some of the tunes are longer, more jam-y kind of music. A couple of tracks really sound like the Allman Brothers—not the songs but the atmosphere of the band."[46] To promote the record, the band appeared as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live on May 17, 2010.[47] The release of Mojo was followed by a North American summer tour. Prior to the tour, five of the band's guitars, including two owned by Petty, were stolen from their practice space in Culver City, California in April 2010. The items were recovered by Los Angeles police the next week.[48]

In 2012, the band went on a world tour that included their first European dates in 20 years and their first ever concerts in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.[49][50]

On July 28, 2014, Reprise Records released Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' thirteenth studio album, Hypnotic Eye. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the band's first album to top the chart.[51] On November 20, 2015, the Tom Petty Radio channel debuted on SiriusXM.[52]

In 2017, the Heartbreakers embarked on a 40th Anniversary Tour of the United States.[53] The tour began on April 20 in Oklahoma City and ended on September 25 with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California.[53][54] The Hollywood Bowl concert, which would ultimately be the Heartbreakers' final show, ended with a performance of "American Girl".[55]

On September 28, 2018, Reprise Records released An American Treasure, a 60-track career-spanning box set featuring dozens of previously unreleased recordings, alternate versions of classic songs, rarities, historic live performances and deep tracks. The box set was preceded by the first single, "Keep A Little Soul", in July 2018. The song is an unreleased outtake originally recorded in 1982 during the Long After Dark sessions.[56]

Acting edit

Petty's first appearance in film took place in 1978, when he had a cameo in FM.[2] He later had a small part in 1987's Made in Heaven and appeared in several episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show between 1987 and 1990, playing himself as one of Garry Shandling's neighbors.[2] Petty was also featured in Shandling's other show, The Larry Sanders Show, as one of the story within a story final guests. In the episode, Petty gets bumped from the show and nearly comes to blows with Greg Kinnear.[57]

Petty appeared in the 1997 film The Postman, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, as the Bridge City Mayor (from the dialogue it is implied that he is playing a future history version of himself).[2] In 2002, he appeared on The Simpsons in the episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", along with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello, and Brian Setzer. In it, Petty spoofed himself as a tutor to Homer Simpson on the art of lyric writing, composing a brief song about a drunk girl driving down the road while concerned with the state of public schools. Later in the episode, he loses a toe during a riot.[58]

Petty had a recurring role as the voice of Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill from 2004 to 2009.[2] In 2010, Petty made a five-second cameo appearance with comedian Andy Samberg in a musical video titled "Great Day" featured on the bonus DVD as part of The Lonely Island's new album Turtleneck & Chain.[59]

Views on artistic control edit

Petty was known as a staunch guardian of his artistic control and artistic freedom. In 1979, he was involved in a legal dispute when ABC Records was sold to MCA Records. He refused to be transferred to another record label without his consent. In May 1979, he filed for bankruptcy and was signed to the new MCA subsidiary Backstreet Records.[60]

In early 1981, the upcoming Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album, which would become Hard Promises, was slated to be the next MCA release with the new list price of $9.98, following Steely Dan's Gaucho and the Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra Xanadu soundtrack. This so-called "superstar pricing" was $1.00 more than the usual list price of $8.98.[61] Petty voiced his objections to the price hike in the press and the issue became a popular cause among music fans. Non-delivery of the album and naming it Eight Ninety-Eight were considered, but eventually MCA decided against the price increase.[62]

In 1987, Petty sued tire company B.F. Goodrich for $1 million for using a song very similar to his song "Mary's New Car" in a TV commercial. The ad agency that produced the commercial had previously sought permission to use Petty's song but was refused.[63] A judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting further use of the ad and the suit was later settled out of court.[64] Petty also disallowed George W. Bush from using "I Won't Back Down" for his 2000 presidential campaign.[65] His family would do the same for Donald Trump in 2020, stating "Tom Petty would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate."[66]

Some outlets have claimed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers single "Dani California", released in May 2006, bears a close musical similarity to Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance".[67][68] Petty told Rolling Stone, "I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock 'n' roll songs sound alike. Ask Chuck Berry. The Strokes took 'American Girl' for their song 'Last Nite', and I saw an interview with them where they actually admitted it. That made me laugh out loud. I was like, 'OK, good for you' ... If someone took my song note for note and stole it maliciously, then maybe [I'd sue]. But I don't believe in lawsuits much. I think there are enough frivolous lawsuits in this country without people fighting over pop songs."[69]

In January 2015, it was revealed that Petty and Jeff Lynne would receive royalties from Sam Smith's song "Stay with Me" after its writers acknowledged similarities between it and "I Won't Back Down". Petty and co-composer Lynne were each awarded 12.5% of the royalties from "Stay with Me", and their names were added to the ASCAP song credit.[70] Petty clarified that he did not believe Smith plagiarized him, saying, "All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen. Most times you catch it before it gets out the studio door but in this case it got by. Sam's people were very understanding of our predicament and we easily came to an agreement".[71]

Personal life edit

Petty overcame a difficult relationship with his father. He said his father found it difficult to accept that Petty was "a mild-mannered kid who was interested in the arts" and subjected him to verbal and physical abuse on a regular basis. Petty described his father as a "wild, gambling drinker guy".[72] He was close to his mother and his brother, Bruce.[73][72][74]

Petty married Jane Benyo in 1974. They had two daughters: Adria, a director, and Annakim, an artist.[75] Benyo told mutual friend Stevie Nicks that she met Petty at "the age of seventeen". Nicks misheard Benyo's North Florida accent, inspiring the title of her song "Edge of Seventeen".[76] Petty and Benyo divorced in 1996.

On May 17, 1987, an arsonist set fire to Petty's house in Encino, California. Firefighters were able to salvage the basement recording studio and the original tapes stored there, as well as his Gibson Dove acoustic guitar. His signature gray top hat, was destroyed. The perpetrator was never caught.[77][78]

Petty struggled with heroin addiction following his divorce from Benyo. [79] He cited the emotional pain of the divorce as a cause.[80][81] He got clean after going to rehab in 1999, crediting his then-girlfriend Dana York with saving his life by helping him seek treatment. [80]

On June 3, 2001, Petty and York [82] were married at Petty's home in Malibu. Little Richard officiated the wedding, and a mariachi band performed. York had a son from a previous marriage, Dylan. [75]

Petty spoke in 2014 of the benefits from his practice of Transcendental Meditation.[83]

Death edit

Petty was found unconscious at his home, not breathing and in cardiac arrest, in the early morning hours of October 2, 2017. He was resuscitated and taken to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died at 8:40 p.m. PDT,[84] after premature reports of his death throughout the day.[85][86][87][88]

A memorial service for Petty was held at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, on October 16, 2017, four days before what would have been his 67th birthday.[89]

On January 19, 2018, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced that Petty had died of "multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity",[90] which was reported by Rolling Stone as an "accidental overdose",[91][92] a combination of fentanyl, oxycodone, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl (all opioids); temazepam and alprazolam (both sedatives); and citalopram (an antidepressant).[93] In a statement on his website, Petty's wife and daughter said he had a number of medical problems, including emphysema, knee difficulties "and most significantly a fractured hip". He was prescribed pain medication for these problems and informed on the day of his death that his hip injury had worsened. The statement read, "[it] is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his overuse of medication.[..] We feel confident that this was, as the coroner found, an unfortunate accident."[94]

On September 23, 2018, Petty's widow Dana gave an interview to Billboard saying that Petty put off hip surgery his doctors had recommended for some time. "He'd had it in mind it was his last tour and he owed it to his long-time crew, from decades some of them, and his fans." Dana said that Petty was in a good mood the day before his death: "He had those three shows in L.A. Never had he been so proud of himself, so happy, so looking forward to the future—and then he's gone."[95]

Equipment edit

Petty owned and used a number of guitars over the years. From 1976 to 1982, his main instrument was a sunburst 1964 Fender Stratocaster. He also used Rickenbacker guitars from 1979 onwards.[96] The Rickenbacker 660/12TP neck was designed by Petty and featured his signature from 1991 to 1997.[97] He also extensively played several Fender Telecasters[98][99][100] and a Guild D25 12-string acoustic.

Petty's later amplifier setup featured two Fender Vibro-King 60-watt combos.[101]

Awards and honors edit

In 1994, You Got Lucky, a Petty tribute album featuring such bands as Everclear and Silkworm was released.[102]

In April 1996, Petty received UCLA's George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement.[103] The next month, Petty won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' Golden Note Award.[103][104]

 
Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, for their contribution to the recording industry.[105]

In December 2001, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,[106] which further honored Petty with an exhibit of his items from July 2006 until 2007.[107]

He is ranked 91st on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Artists of All Time.[108]

Petty received the Billboard Century Award, the organization's highest honor for creative achievement on December 6, 2005.[109][110]

In September 2006, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers received the keys to the city of Gainesville, Florida, where he and his bandmates either lived or grew up.[111]

Peter Bogdanovich's documentary film on Petty's career titled Runnin' Down a Dream premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2007.[112]

Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy.[1]

A week after his death in 2017, a tribute to Petty was painted on Gainesville's Southwest 34th Street Wall. It reads "Love you always, Gainesville No. 1 Son, Thanks, Tommy".[113]

In October 2018, on what would have been the singer's 68th birthday, the city of Gainesville renamed the former Northeast Park, a park where a young Petty had often visited, as Tom Petty Park.[114]

In December 2021, the University of Florida board of trustees unanimously voted to posthumously award Petty with an honorary Ph.D. from the school.[115]

He has three albums, Wildflowers (No. 214),[116] Damn the Torpedoes (No. 231),[117] and Full Moon Fever (No. 298)[118] on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. He has two songs on the same magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. "American Girl" (No. 169),[119] and "Free Fallin'" (No. 219).[120]

In October 2022, the University of Florida's Pride of the Sunshine dedicated their halftime show to Tom Petty's music[121] as part of the university's inaugural Tom Petty Day.[122] The band would continue to tribute their performances to Tom Petty during halftime in several other games throughout the 2022-23 football season.

In December 2023, Petty's song "Love Is a Long Road" was used in the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, [123]which is considered one of the most anticipated video games ever made[124]. This trailer gained over 90 million YouTube views within the first 24 hours[125]. Because of this immense bump in popularity, the song itself gained nearly 1 million YouTube views in the same time span and a 36,979% increase on Spotify.[126]

Discography edit

With the Heartbreakers edit

With the Traveling Wilburys edit

Solo edit

With Mudcrutch edit

Posthumously edit

Filmography edit

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1978 FM Himself
1987 Made in Heaven Stanky
1996 She's the One Soundtrack
1997 The Postman Bridge City Mayor
2007 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream Himself Music Documentary
2013 Sound City Himself Music Documentary
2018 Elvis Presley: The Searcher Himself Music Documentary
2019 Echo in the Canyon Himself Music Documentary
2021 Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free Himself Music Documentary
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1979–2010 Saturday Night Live Himself (musical guest) 8 episodes
— "Buck Henry/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers" (1979)
— "Howard Hesseman/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers" (1983)
— "Steve Martin/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" (1989)
— "Kirstie Alley/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" (1992)
— "John Turturro/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" (1994)
— "Tom Hanks/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" (1996)
— "John Goodman/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers" (1999)
— "Alec Baldwin/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers" (2010)
1987–89 It's Garry Shandling's Show Himself 4 episodes
— "It's Gary Shandling's Christmas Show" (1987)
— "No Baby, No Show" (1987)
— "Vegas: Part 1" (1989)
— "Vegas: Part 2" (1989)
1989 Biography Himself (interviewee) Episode: "Johnny Cash: The Man in Black"
1994 Tom Petty: Going Home Himself TV documentary
1998 The Larry Sanders Show Himself Episode: "Flip"
1999 Behind the Music Himself Episode: "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers"
2002 The Simpsons Himself (voice role) Episode: "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
2004–09 King of the Hill Lucky (voice role) recurring role (28 episodes)
2008 Super Bowl XLII Himself Halftime show
Credited as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

See also edit

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Thomas Earl Petty October 20 1950 October 2 2017 was an American singer songwriter and guitarist He was the leader of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys He was also a successful solo artist Tom PettyPetty performing in Denmark in 2012Background informationBirth nameThomas Earl PettyAlso known asCharlie T Wilbury Jr Muddy WilburyBorn 1950 10 20 October 20 1950Gainesville Florida U S DiedOctober 2 2017 2017 10 02 aged 66 Santa Monica California U S GenresRock heartland rock roots rock country rock southern rockOccupation s Musician singer songwriterInstrument s Vocals guitar harmonicaDiscographyTom Petty discographyYears active1967 2017LabelsShelter Backstreet MCA Warner Bros American RepriseFormerly ofMudcrutch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Traveling WilburysWebsitetompetty wbr comSignature Over the course of his career Petty sold more than 80 million albums His hit singles with the Heartbreakers include American Girl 1976 Don t Do Me Like That 1979 Refugee 1980 The Waiting 1981 Don t Come Around Here No More 1985 and Learning to Fly 1991 Petty s solo hits include I Won t Back Down 1989 Free Fallin 1989 and You Don t Know How It Feels 1994 Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy 1 He also acted he had a recurring role as the voice of Lucky Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill from 2004 to the show s end in 2009 2 Petty died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017 at the age of 66 one week after the end of the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary Tour 3 4 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1976 1987 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 2 2 1988 1991 Traveling Wilburys and solo career 2 3 1991 2017 Move to Warner Bros Records 2 4 Acting 3 Views on artistic control 4 Personal life 5 Death 6 Equipment 7 Awards and honors 8 Discography 8 1 With the Heartbreakers 8 2 With the Traveling Wilburys 8 3 Solo 8 4 With Mudcrutch 8 5 Posthumously 9 Filmography 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksEarly life editPetty was born on October 20 1950 in Gainesville Florida the first of two sons of Kitty Petty nee Avery a local tax office worker and Earl Petty who was a traveling salesman 5 6 7 His brother Bruce was seven years younger 5 Petty grew up in the Northeast Gainesville Residential District known locally as the Duckpond After his death a historical marker was placed in the neighborhood and a nearby park was renamed to Tom Petty Park 8 His interest in rock and roll music began at age ten when he met Elvis Presley 9 In the summer of 1961 his uncle was working on the set of Presley s film Follow That Dream in nearby Ocala and invited Petty to watch the shoot 10 He instantly became a Presley fan and when he returned that Saturday he was greeted by his friend Keith Harben and soon traded his Wham O slingshot for a collection of Elvis 45s 11 Of that meeting with Presley Petty said Elvis glowed 12 In a 2006 interview he said he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show 13 The minute I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and it s true of thousands of guys there was the way out There was the way to do it You get your friends and you re a self contained unit And you make the music And it looked like so much fun It was something I identified with I had never been hugely into sports I had been a big fan of Elvis But I really saw in the Beatles that here s something I could do I knew I could do it It wasn t long before there were groups springing up in garages all over the place 14 6 He later said that the Rolling Stones inspired him by demonstrating that he and musicians like him could make it in rock and roll 15 Don Felder a fellow Gainesville resident who later joined the Eagles claimed in his autobiography that he was one of Petty s first guitar teachers 16 17 although Petty said that Felder taught him to play piano instead 18 As a young man Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew of the University of Florida but never attended as a student An Ogeechee lime tree that he purportedly planted while employed at the university is now called the Tom Petty tree Petty stated that he did not recall planting any trees 19 20 18 He also worked briefly as a gravedigger 18 Career edit1976 1987 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers edit Main article Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Shortly after embracing his musical aspirations Petty started a band known as the Epics which later evolved into Mudcrutch The band included future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench and was popular in Gainesville but their recordings went unnoticed by a mainstream audience They recorded at The Church Studio in Tulsa Oklahoma Their only single Depot Street released in 1975 by Shelter Records failed to chart 21 After Mudcrutch split up Petty reluctantly agreed to pursue a solo career Tench decided to form his own group whose sound Petty appreciated Eventually Petty and Campbell collaborated with Tench Ron Blair and Stan Lynch forming the first lineup of the Heartbreakers Their eponymous debut album gained little popularity amongst American audiences achieving greater success in Britain citation needed The singles American Girl and Breakdown re released in 1977 peaked at No 40 after the band toured in the United Kingdom in support of Nils Lofgren The debut album was released by Shelter Records which at that time was distributed by ABC Records 22 nbsp Petty center with the Heartbreakers 1977Their second album You re Gonna Get It was the band s first Top 40 album 22 featuring the singles I Need to Know and Listen to Her Heart Their third album Damn the Torpedoes quickly went platinum selling nearly two million copies it includes their breakthrough singles Don t Do Me Like That Here Comes My Girl Even the Losers and Refugee 23 In September 1979 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at a Musicians United for Safe Energy concert at Madison Square Garden in New York 24 Their rendition of Cry to Me was featured on the resulting album No Nukes 25 Their fourth album Hard Promises released in 1981 became a top ten hit going platinum and spawning the hit single The Waiting The album also featured Petty s first duet Insider with Stevie Nicks 26 Bass player Ron Blair quit the group and was replaced on the fifth album Long After Dark 1982 by Howie Epstein the resulting lineup lasted until 1994 The album contained the hit You Got Lucky In 1985 the band participated in Live Aid playing four songs at John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia Southern Accents was also released in 1985 This album included the hit single Don t Come Around Here No More which was produced by Dave Stewart The song s video featured Petty dressed as the Mad Hatter mocking and chasing Alice from the book Alice s Adventures in Wonderland then cutting and eating her as if she were a cake The ensuing tour led to the live album Pack Up the Plantation Live and an invitation from Bob Dylan Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers joined him on his True Confessions Tour They also played some dates with the Grateful Dead in 1986 and 1987 Also in 1987 the group released Let Me Up I ve Had Enough which includes Jammin Me which Petty wrote with Dylan 27 1988 1991 Traveling Wilburys and solo career edit Main articles Traveling Wilburys and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers In 1988 Petty along with George Harrison Bob Dylan Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne was a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys The band s first song Handle with Care was intended as a B side of one of Harrison s singles but was judged too good for that purpose and the group decided to record a full album Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 A second Wilburys album mischievously titled Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 and recorded without the recently deceased Orbison followed in 1990 The album was named Vol 3 as a response to a series of bootlegged studio sessions being sold as Travelling Wilburys Vol 2 Petty incorporated Traveling Wilburys songs into his live shows consistently playing Handle with Care in shows from 2003 to 2006 and for his 2008 tour adding surprises such as End of the Line to the set list 28 In 1989 Petty released Full Moon Fever which featured hits I Won t Back Down Free Fallin and Runnin Down a Dream It was nominally his first solo album although several Heartbreakers and other well known musicians participated Mike Campbell co produced the album with Petty and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra and backing musicians included Campbell Lynne and fellow Wilburys Roy Orbison and George Harrison Ringo Starr appears on drums in the video for I Won t Back Down but they were actually performed by Phil Jones 29 Petty and the Heartbreakers reformed in 1991 and released Into the Great Wide Open which was co produced by Lynne and included the hit singles Learning To Fly and Into the Great Wide Open the latter featuring Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway in the music video 30 Before leaving MCA Records Petty and the Heartbreakers got together to record live in the studio two new songs for a Greatest Hits package Mary Jane s Last Dance and Thunderclap Newman s Something in the Air This was Stan Lynch s last recorded performance with the Heartbreakers Petty commented He left right after the session without really saying goodbye The package went on to sell over ten million copies therefore receiving diamond certification by the RIAA 31 1991 2017 Move to Warner Bros Records edit In 1989 while still under contract to MCA Petty secretly signed a lucrative deal with Warner Bros Records to which the Traveling Wilburys had been signed 32 His first album on his new label 1994 s Wildflowers Petty s second of three solo albums included the highly beloved title track 33 as well as the singles You Don t Know How It Feels You Wreck Me It s Good to Be King and A Higher Place The album produced by Rick Rubin sold over three million copies in the United States 31 In 1996 Petty with the Heartbreakers released a soundtrack to the movie She s the One starring Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston see Songs and Music from She s the One The album s singles were Walls Circus featuring Lindsey Buckingham Climb that Hill and a song written by Lucinda Williams Change the Locks The album also included a cover of Asshole a song by Beck The same year the band accompanied Johnny Cash on Unchained provisionally titled Petty Cash for which Cash won a Grammy for Best Country Album Cash later covered Petty s I Won t Back Down on American III Solitary Man 34 nbsp Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performing live at the Verizon Amphitheatre Indianapolis 2006In 1999 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their last album with Rubin at the helm Echo Two songs were released as singles in the US Room at the Top and Free Girl Now The album reached number 10 in the US album charts 35 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played I Won t Back Down at the America A Tribute to Heroes benefit concert for victims of the September 11 2001 attacks The following year they played Taxman I Need You and Handle with Care joined for the last by Jeff Lynne Dhani Harrison and Jim Keltner at the Concert for George in honor of Petty s friend and former bandmate George Harrison 36 Petty s 2002 release The Last DJ was an album length critique of practices within the music industry 37 The title track inspired by Los Angeles radio personality Jim Ladd bemoaned the end of the freedom that radio DJs once had to personally select songs for their station s playlists 37 38 The album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States 35 In 2005 Petty began hosting his own show Buried Treasure on XM Satellite Radio on which he shared selections from his personal record collection 39 nbsp Petty performing at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow Virginia 2006In 2006 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers headlined the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival as part of their 30th Anniversary Tour Special guests included Stevie Nicks Pearl Jam the Allman Brothers Band Trey Anastasio the Derek Trucks Band and the Black Crowes Nicks joined Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage for several songs including Stop Draggin My Heart Around 40 41 In July 2006 Petty released a solo album titled Highway Companion which included the hit Saving Grace It debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 which was Petty s highest chart position since the introduction of the Nielsen SoundScan system for tracking album sales in 1991 Highway Companion was briefly promoted on the tour with the Heartbreakers in 2006 with performances of Saving Grace Square One Down South and Flirting with Time 42 During the summer of 2007 Petty reunited with his old bandmates Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh along with Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell to reform his pre Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch The quintet recorded an album of 14 songs that was released on April 29 2008 on iTunes an additional song Special Place was available if the album was pre ordered The band supported the album with a brief tour of California in the spring of 2008 43 nbsp Petty performing in San Francisco 2016In 2007 Petty and the Heartbreakers contributed a cover of I m Walkin to the album Goin Home A Tribute to Fats Domino The album s sales helped buy instruments for students in New Orleans public schools and contributed to the building of a community center in the city s Hurricane Katrina damaged Ninth Ward 44 On February 3 2008 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLII at the University of Phoenix Stadium They played American Girl I Won t Back Down Free Fallin and Runnin Down a Dream 45 That summer the band toured North America with Steve Winwood as the opening act Winwood joined Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage at select shows and performed his Spencer Davis Group hit Gimme Some Lovin and occasionally he performed his Blind Faith hit Can t Find My Way Home In November 2009 the boxed set The Live Anthology a compilation of live recordings from 1978 to 2006 was released The band s twelfth album Mojo was released on June 15 2010 and reached number two on the Billboard 200 album chart 35 Petty described the album as Blues based Some of the tunes are longer more jam y kind of music A couple of tracks really sound like the Allman Brothers not the songs but the atmosphere of the band 46 To promote the record the band appeared as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live on May 17 2010 47 The release of Mojo was followed by a North American summer tour Prior to the tour five of the band s guitars including two owned by Petty were stolen from their practice space in Culver City California in April 2010 The items were recovered by Los Angeles police the next week 48 In 2012 the band went on a world tour that included their first European dates in 20 years and their first ever concerts in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador 49 50 On July 28 2014 Reprise Records released Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers thirteenth studio album Hypnotic Eye The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 becoming the band s first album to top the chart 51 On November 20 2015 the Tom Petty Radio channel debuted on SiriusXM 52 In 2017 the Heartbreakers embarked on a 40th Anniversary Tour of the United States 53 The tour began on April 20 in Oklahoma City and ended on September 25 with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood California 53 54 The Hollywood Bowl concert which would ultimately be the Heartbreakers final show ended with a performance of American Girl 55 On September 28 2018 Reprise Records released An American Treasure a 60 track career spanning box set featuring dozens of previously unreleased recordings alternate versions of classic songs rarities historic live performances and deep tracks The box set was preceded by the first single Keep A Little Soul in July 2018 The song is an unreleased outtake originally recorded in 1982 during the Long After Dark sessions 56 Acting edit Petty s first appearance in film took place in 1978 when he had a cameo in FM 2 He later had a small part in 1987 s Made in Heaven and appeared in several episodes of It s Garry Shandling s Show between 1987 and 1990 playing himself as one of Garry Shandling s neighbors 2 Petty was also featured in Shandling s other show The Larry Sanders Show as one of the story within a story final guests In the episode Petty gets bumped from the show and nearly comes to blows with Greg Kinnear 57 Petty appeared in the 1997 film The Postman directed by and starring Kevin Costner as the Bridge City Mayor from the dialogue it is implied that he is playing a future history version of himself 2 In 2002 he appeared on The Simpsons in the episode How I Spent My Strummer Vacation along with Mick Jagger Keith Richards Lenny Kravitz Elvis Costello and Brian Setzer In it Petty spoofed himself as a tutor to Homer Simpson on the art of lyric writing composing a brief song about a drunk girl driving down the road while concerned with the state of public schools Later in the episode he loses a toe during a riot 58 Petty had a recurring role as the voice of Elroy Lucky Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill from 2004 to 2009 2 In 2010 Petty made a five second cameo appearance with comedian Andy Samberg in a musical video titled Great Day featured on the bonus DVD as part of The Lonely Island s new album Turtleneck amp Chain 59 Views on artistic control editPetty was known as a staunch guardian of his artistic control and artistic freedom In 1979 he was involved in a legal dispute when ABC Records was sold to MCA Records He refused to be transferred to another record label without his consent In May 1979 he filed for bankruptcy and was signed to the new MCA subsidiary Backstreet Records 60 In early 1981 the upcoming Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album which would become Hard Promises was slated to be the next MCA release with the new list price of 9 98 following Steely Dan s Gaucho and the Olivia Newton John Electric Light Orchestra Xanadu soundtrack This so called superstar pricing was 1 00 more than the usual list price of 8 98 61 Petty voiced his objections to the price hike in the press and the issue became a popular cause among music fans Non delivery of the album and naming it Eight Ninety Eight were considered but eventually MCA decided against the price increase 62 In 1987 Petty sued tire company B F Goodrich for 1 million for using a song very similar to his song Mary s New Car in a TV commercial The ad agency that produced the commercial had previously sought permission to use Petty s song but was refused 63 A judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting further use of the ad and the suit was later settled out of court 64 Petty also disallowed George W Bush from using I Won t Back Down for his 2000 presidential campaign 65 His family would do the same for Donald Trump in 2020 stating Tom Petty would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate 66 Some outlets have claimed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers single Dani California released in May 2006 bears a close musical similarity to Petty s Mary Jane s Last Dance 67 68 Petty told Rolling Stone I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there And a lot of rock n roll songs sound alike Ask Chuck Berry The Strokes took American Girl for their song Last Nite and I saw an interview with them where they actually admitted it That made me laugh out loud I was like OK good for you If someone took my song note for note and stole it maliciously then maybe I d sue But I don t believe in lawsuits much I think there are enough frivolous lawsuits in this country without people fighting over pop songs 69 In January 2015 it was revealed that Petty and Jeff Lynne would receive royalties from Sam Smith s song Stay with Me after its writers acknowledged similarities between it and I Won t Back Down Petty and co composer Lynne were each awarded 12 5 of the royalties from Stay with Me and their names were added to the ASCAP song credit 70 Petty clarified that he did not believe Smith plagiarized him saying All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen Most times you catch it before it gets out the studio door but in this case it got by Sam s people were very understanding of our predicament and we easily came to an agreement 71 Personal life editPetty overcame a difficult relationship with his father He said his father found it difficult to accept that Petty was a mild mannered kid who was interested in the arts and subjected him to verbal and physical abuse on a regular basis Petty described his father as a wild gambling drinker guy 72 He was close to his mother and his brother Bruce 73 72 74 Petty married Jane Benyo in 1974 They had two daughters Adria a director and Annakim an artist 75 Benyo told mutual friend Stevie Nicks that she met Petty at the age of seventeen Nicks misheard Benyo s North Florida accent inspiring the title of her song Edge of Seventeen 76 Petty and Benyo divorced in 1996 On May 17 1987 an arsonist set fire to Petty s house in Encino California Firefighters were able to salvage the basement recording studio and the original tapes stored there as well as his Gibson Dove acoustic guitar His signature gray top hat was destroyed The perpetrator was never caught 77 78 Petty struggled with heroin addiction following his divorce from Benyo 79 He cited the emotional pain of the divorce as a cause 80 81 He got clean after going to rehab in 1999 crediting his then girlfriend Dana York with saving his life by helping him seek treatment 80 On June 3 2001 Petty and York 82 were married at Petty s home in Malibu Little Richard officiated the wedding and a mariachi band performed York had a son from a previous marriage Dylan 75 Petty spoke in 2014 of the benefits from his practice of Transcendental Meditation 83 Death editPetty was found unconscious at his home not breathing and in cardiac arrest in the early morning hours of October 2 2017 He was resuscitated and taken to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica California where he died at 8 40 p m PDT 84 after premature reports of his death throughout the day 85 86 87 88 A memorial service for Petty was held at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades Los Angeles on October 16 2017 four days before what would have been his 67th birthday 89 On January 19 2018 the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced that Petty had died of multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity 90 which was reported by Rolling Stone as an accidental overdose 91 92 a combination of fentanyl oxycodone acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl all opioids temazepam and alprazolam both sedatives and citalopram an antidepressant 93 In a statement on his website Petty s wife and daughter said he had a number of medical problems including emphysema knee difficulties and most significantly a fractured hip He was prescribed pain medication for these problems and informed on the day of his death that his hip injury had worsened The statement read it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his overuse of medication We feel confident that this was as the coroner found an unfortunate accident 94 On September 23 2018 Petty s widow Dana gave an interview to Billboard saying that Petty put off hip surgery his doctors had recommended for some time He d had it in mind it was his last tour and he owed it to his long time crew from decades some of them and his fans Dana said that Petty was in a good mood the day before his death He had those three shows in L A Never had he been so proud of himself so happy so looking forward to the future and then he s gone 95 Equipment editPetty owned and used a number of guitars over the years From 1976 to 1982 his main instrument was a sunburst 1964 Fender Stratocaster He also used Rickenbacker guitars from 1979 onwards 96 The Rickenbacker 660 12TP neck was designed by Petty and featured his signature from 1991 to 1997 97 He also extensively played several Fender Telecasters 98 99 100 and a Guild D25 12 string acoustic Petty s later amplifier setup featured two Fender Vibro King 60 watt combos 101 Awards and honors editMain article List of awards and nominations received by Tom Petty In 1994 You Got Lucky a Petty tribute album featuring such bands as Everclear and Silkworm was released 102 In April 1996 Petty received UCLA s George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement 103 The next month Petty won the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers Golden Note Award 103 104 nbsp Hollywood Walk of Fame starTom Petty and the Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 for their contribution to the recording industry 105 In December 2001 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 106 which further honored Petty with an exhibit of his items from July 2006 until 2007 107 He is ranked 91st on Rolling Stone s list of the Greatest Artists of All Time 108 Petty received the Billboard Century Award the organization s highest honor for creative achievement on December 6 2005 109 110 In September 2006 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers received the keys to the city of Gainesville Florida where he and his bandmates either lived or grew up 111 Peter Bogdanovich s documentary film on Petty s career titled Runnin Down a Dream premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2007 112 Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy 1 A week after his death in 2017 a tribute to Petty was painted on Gainesville s Southwest 34th Street Wall It reads Love you always Gainesville No 1 Son Thanks Tommy 113 In October 2018 on what would have been the singer s 68th birthday the city of Gainesville renamed the former Northeast Park a park where a young Petty had often visited as Tom Petty Park 114 In December 2021 the University of Florida board of trustees unanimously voted to posthumously award Petty with an honorary Ph D from the school 115 He has three albums Wildflowers No 214 116 Damn the Torpedoes No 231 117 and Full Moon Fever No 298 118 on Rolling Stone magazine s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list He has two songs on the same magazine s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list American Girl No 169 119 and Free Fallin No 219 120 In October 2022 the University of Florida s Pride of the Sunshine dedicated their halftime show to Tom Petty s music 121 as part of the university s inaugural Tom Petty Day 122 The band would continue to tribute their performances to Tom Petty during halftime in several other games throughout the 2022 23 football season In December 2023 Petty s song Love Is a Long Road was used in the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI 123 which is considered one of the most anticipated video games ever made 124 This trailer gained over 90 million YouTube views within the first 24 hours 125 Because of this immense bump in popularity the song itself gained nearly 1 million YouTube views in the same time span and a 36 979 increase on Spotify 126 Discography editMain article Tom Petty discography With the Heartbreakers edit Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1976 You re Gonna Get It 1978 Damn the Torpedoes 1979 Hard Promises 1981 Long After Dark 1982 Southern Accents 1985 Let Me Up I ve Had Enough 1987 Into the Great Wide Open 1991 Songs and Music from She s the One 1996 Echo 1999 The Last DJ 2002 Mojo 2010 Hypnotic Eye 2014 With the Traveling Wilburys edit Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 1988 Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 1990 Solo edit Full Moon Fever 1989 Wildflowers 1994 Highway Companion 2006 With Mudcrutch edit Mudcrutch 2008 2 2016 Posthumously edit An American Treasure 2018 The Best of Everything 2019 Wildflowers amp All the Rest 2020 Finding Wildflowers Alternate Versions 2021 Angel Dream Songs and Music from the Motion Picture She s the One 2021 Filmography editFilmYear Title Role Notes1978 FM Himself1987 Made in Heaven Stanky1996 She s the One Soundtrack1997 The Postman Bridge City Mayor2007 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Runnin Down a Dream Himself Music Documentary2013 Sound City Himself Music Documentary2018 Elvis Presley The Searcher Himself Music Documentary2019 Echo in the Canyon Himself Music Documentary2021 Tom Petty Somewhere You Feel Free Himself Music DocumentaryTelevisionYear Title Role Notes1979 2010 Saturday Night Live Himself musical guest 8 episodes Buck Henry Tom Petty amp The Heartbreakers 1979 Howard Hesseman Tom Petty amp The Heartbreakers 1983 Steve Martin Tom Petty amp the Heartbreakers 1989 Kirstie Alley Tom Petty amp the Heartbreakers 1992 John Turturro Tom Petty amp the Heartbreakers 1994 Tom Hanks Tom Petty amp the Heartbreakers 1996 John Goodman Tom Petty amp The Heartbreakers 1999 Alec Baldwin Tom Petty amp the Heartbreakers 2010 1987 89 It s Garry Shandling s Show Himself 4 episodes It s Gary Shandling s Christmas Show 1987 No Baby No Show 1987 Vegas Part 1 1989 Vegas Part 2 1989 1989 Biography Himself interviewee Episode Johnny Cash The Man in Black 1994 Tom Petty Going Home Himself TV documentary1998 The Larry Sanders Show Himself Episode Flip 1999 Behind the Music Himself Episode Tom Petty amp the Heartbreakers 2002 The Simpsons Himself voice role Episode How I Spent My Strummer Vacation 2004 09 King of the Hill Lucky voice role recurring role 28 episodes 2008 Super Bowl XLII Himself Halftime showCredited as Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersSee also editList of artists who reached number one on the U S Mainstream Rock chartReferences edit a b 2018 MusiCares 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