Arts > Music > Rock > USA > Tom Petty   1950-2017

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Mary Jane's Last Dance (Official Music Video)

Music video by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

performing Mary Jane's Last Dance.

(C) 1993 Geffen Records

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8

Tom Petty performs on stage in New York.

1977

Photograph: Michael Putland

Getty Images

Heartbreakers frontman Tom Petty – a life in pictures

G

Tuesday 3 October 2017    05.42 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2017/
oct/03/heartbreakers-frontman-tom-petty-a-life-in-pictures

Tom Petty Thomas    1950-2017

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

songwriter who melded

California rock

with a deep, stubborn

Southern heritage

(...)

Recording

with the Heartbreakers,

the band he formed

in the mid-1970s,

and on his own,

Mr. Petty wrote pithy,

hardheaded songs that gave

a contemporary clarity

to 1960s roots.

His voice was grainy

and unpretty,

with a Florida drawl

that he proudly displayed.

Mr. Petty’s songs

were staples

of FM rock radio

through decades,

and with hits like “Refugee,”

“Don’t Come

Around Here No More,”

“Free Fallin’”

and

“Into the Great Wide Open,”

Mr. Petty

sold millions of albums

and headlined

arenas and festivals

well into 2017.

He played the Super Bowl

halftime show in 2008

and entered the Rock & Roll

Hall of Fame in 2002.

But his songs

stayed down-to-earth,

with sturdy guitar riffs

carrying lyrics

that spoke for underdogs

and ornery outcasts.

In his 1989 hit,

“I Won’t Back Down,”

he sang,

“You can stand me up

at the gates of hell

/ But I won’t back down.”

Mr. Petty’s songwriting

was shaped by the music

he heard growing up:

the ringing folk-rock

guitars of the Byrds,

the crunch

of the Rolling Stones,

the caustic insights

of Bob Dylan,

the melodic turns

of the Beatles,

the steadfast backbeat

of Southern soul

and the twang

of country-rock.

Onstage, the Heartbreakers

sometimes expanded songs

toward psychedelia-tinged

jams.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/
arts/music/tom-petty-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
tom-petty 

https://www.npr.org/artists/15300677/
tom-petty

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
tompetty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tom_Petty_discography

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/
arts/music/tom-petty-wildflowers-and-all-the-rest.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/
651425695/tom-pettys-legacy-lives-on-as-an-american-treasure

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/19/
579300512/l-a-coroner-
tom-petty-s-death-was-due-to-an-accidental-overdose

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/03/
555302003/tom-petty-to-fresh-air-the-songs-mean-a-lot-to-people-
and-it-means-a-lot-to-me

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/03/
tom-petty-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/03/
free-fallin-american-girl-five-greatest-tom-petty-songs

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/03/
tom-petty-the-rock-star-who-was-a-music-fan-as-much-as-a-musician

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2017/oct/03/
heartbreakers-frontman-tom-petty-a-life-in-pictures

https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/
100000005474101/tom-petty-dead.html - Oct. 3, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/
arts/music/tom-petty-dead.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/03/
555157788/rock-star-tom-petty-dead-at-66

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/04/
336608432/tom-petty-on-stage-fright-cheap-speakers-and-george-harrison

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/
arts/music/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-at-beacon-theater.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/
arts/music/31petty.html

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/288208/
Tom-Petty-and-The-Heartbreakers-Live-at-the-Olympic-
The-Last-DJ-and-More/overview

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/17/
arts/music-bob-dylan-and-tom-petty.html

Related > Anglonautes > Arts

music

Related > Anglonautes > Vocapedia

music

USA > prescription opioid painkillers