“1) It’s your book, Warren, your contract. 2) It’s not authorized, because authorized biographies are always bulls***. 3) I’ll help you get the interviews you need, so long as the people are willing.

Tom Petty thought he was just making another solo album. Instead he ended up performing open-heart surgery on himself, ...

The term “rock star” is often overused within modern music, but Tom Petty is one of the few artists who truly earned the title. His distinctive vocal style, confidently cool stage presence, and ...

The result is a penetrating profile in which Petty opens up for the first time about his heroin addiction, something he had sliced out of Peter Bogdanovich's four-hour documentary, 2007's "Runnin' ...

For roughly three decades, Tom Petty couldn't quite shake the feeling that he had unfinished business to attend to. Lenahan was swapped out in 1972 for Danny Roberts, and keyboardist Benmont Tench was ...

Concord native Warren Zanes first met Tom Petty when Zanes was a member of the Del Fuegos. He describes the event in his new biography, “Petty,” a little awestruck by his own 20-year-old audacity: ...

Tom Leadon, the co-founder of Tom Petty‘s early Seventies band Mudcrutch and the brother of original Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon, died March 22 at the age of 70. “It is with great sadness, but ...

Tom Leadon, the guitarist who co-founded Mudcrutch with Tom Petty and Mike Campbell and was the brother of Eagles co-founder Bernie Leadon, has died. He was 70. He died March 22, but no other details ...