Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a successful and influential band for decades, so, naturally, a few documentaries have been made about the group. Fans who miss thir music can check out films ...
The song brought two rock icons together.
Until the recent publication of his memoir Heartbreaker, Mike Campbell, who is best known as the founding lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, didn’t set out to write a book. When he was ...
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released 13 albums over four decades, starting with their 1976 self-titled début. Petty, rightfully, holds rank in the American songbook beside Bob Dylan and Bruce ...
It’s 1976 and Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Ron Blair, Stan Lynch, and Benmont Tench are making their official live debut as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at a little club in West Palm Beach Florida ...
Fans of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers—or of 1980s rock music culture in general—have a gift coming their way. For two nights (October 17 and October 20) a lost treasure called Heartbreakers Beach ...
It’s different than being a Heartbreaker, isn’t it? Campbell: I never did it in the Heartbreakers ‘cause I had such a great leader, Tom. But in this band that’s my role, to entertain the audience, ...
It’s blindingly obvious to say that Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were one of the all-time great American bands, but that statement is beyond question not only because of Petty’s deeply human and ...
Tom Petty's 1994 album "Wildflowers" has finally reached full bloom. When the late rock frontman made the album – only his second in a then-two decade career not to be labeled as a Tom Petty and the ...
Walter Lure, a co-founding member of '70s punk rock pioneers the Heartbreakers, died on Aug. 22 at the age of 71, friends confirmed. Soon after the New York City-based Heartbreakers played their first ...
It’s 9 a.m. in southern California, not an hour you expect a rock ‘n’ roller to be up and around — or necessarily lucid. But it’s one of Mike Campbell’s favorite times of the day. “I have dogs and ...
The musician details to PEOPLE his life and career as a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as told in his new autobiography Until the recent publication of his memoir Heartbreaker, Mike ...