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45 Years Ago: Tom Petty Gets Nasty on ‘I Need to Know’
Listen to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'I Need to Know' "Listen to Her Heart" was inspired by Ike Turner putting the make on Petty's first wife during a party in Los Angeles, and comes off a ...
Ultimate Classic Rock2y
45 Years Ago: Tom Petty Just Misses on Rocked-Out ‘You’re Gonna Get It!’
Listen to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'I Need to Know' Fresh off the road, the group sounds tough and hard on You’re Gonna Get It! Their playing, song for song, is even better than on the ...
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Every Tom Petty Album, Ranked
Tom Petty’s death forever changed how I hear ... you” classics like “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It),” “I Need To Know,” “You Got Lucky,” and the apotheosis of this Petty genre ...
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All of Tom Petty’s Solo Songs Ranked
They were Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ... himself to the world with songs like “American Girl,” “I Need To Know,” “Refugee” and “The Waiting.” Believe it or not, Petty and ...
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Heartbreakers Guitarist Mike Campbell Explains Why He Didn’t Confront Tom Petty Over Drug Abuse
Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell explained why he never confronted his bandleader Tom ... and Petty about their personal lives. “I didn’t have to confront him, for him to know how I ...
The Cheat Sheet2y
Stevie Nicks Wanted to Be the ‘Girl Tom Petty’ Even Though She Was Famous First
“And I just fell in love with his music and his band. I would laughingly say to anyone that if I ever got to know Tom Petty and could worm my way into his good graces, if he were ever to ask me ...
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Tom Petty’s Cameron Crowe-Directed ‘Heartbreakers Beach Party’ Film Headed to Paramount+ (EXCLUSIVE)
asking him how he wrote ‘The Waiting’ and ‘I Need to Know,’ for example, and I just felt like, ‘OK, I get to sit here and put you in the front seat of you asking Tom Petty how he wrote ...
How Stevie Nicks inspired one of Tom Petty’s biggest hits — which led to one of Mike Campbell’s greatest guitar solos
Stewart says the Heartbreakers' 1985 smash “Don’t Come Around Here No More” became a tune for Petty after Nicks took a pass ...
The Cheat Sheet2y
Tom Petty Realized That Being Stevie Nicks’ Producer Was a Nightmare for Him
“And I just fell in love with his music and his band. I would laughingly say to anyone that if I ever got to know Tom Petty and could worm my way into his good graces, if he were ever to ask me ...
Variety8mon
Cameron Crowe on Making the Lost 1983 Tom Petty Rock Doc ‘Heartbreakers Beach Party’ and Being Told by the Star: ‘Congratulations, You’re a Director’
asking him how he wrote “The Waiting” and “I Need to Know,” for example, and I just felt like, “OK, I get to sit here and put you in the front seat of you asking Tom Petty how he wrote ...
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Tom Petty to 'Fresh Air': 'The songs mean a lot to people, and it means a lot to me'
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) TOM PETTY: Everything. You know, I still see it as this really magical thing, and it was wonderful. I didn't have the money to have a vast record collection.