Petty met his future biographer, Zanes, in 1986. Petty joined the band on harmony for their album Stand Up and had the group open for The Heartbreakers on tour in 1987. “We got to know him better on ...

Petty said that he first got into Dylan’s music when he was a teenager in Florida. “We hadn’t heard Dylan [growing up in Florida] until ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ came out as a single,” he explained, per ...

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

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' ...

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 ...