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Tom Petty Bio
Tom Petty, known in his early years as
"Tommy", was born in Gainesville, Florida and grew up in northeast
Gainesville. As a teen-aged, amateur musician he often practiced at home
with friends and sometimes even in the family owned fall-out shelter
located in his back yard. Petty graduated from Gainesville High School
in 1968. Petty did not have any musical aspirations until Elvis Presley
came to Ocala, Florida, 25 miles south of Petty's hometown, to work on a
film, "Follow That Dream". Petty went down to watch him and was
inspired. After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics,
and Mudcrutch with ace drummer Randall Marsh, (which also included
future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench) he began
his recording career with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when the band
broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut
album. Still, it took America a full year to catch up to the album.
"Breakdown" was re-released to radio and became a Top 40 hit in 1977
after word filtered back the band was creating a firestorm in England.
On their comeback album Southern Accents (1985) Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers picked up where they had left off. The recording was not
without problems — Petty became frustrated during the mixing process and
broke his left hand after punching through a wall. The album includes
the hit single "Don't Come Around Here No More" which was produced by
Dave Stewart. The video for the single, featuring Tom dressed as the Mad
Hatter mocking and chasing Alice from the book Alice in Wonderland, then
cutting and eating her as if she were a cake, caused some controversy
after it was criticized by feminist groups.
Prior to Full Moon Fever, Lynne and Petty worked together in the
all-stars band Traveling Wilburys, which also counted Bob Dylan, George
Harrison and Roy Orbison as members. Traveling Wilburys started as a
joke in order to record a B-side for a George Harrison single, but the
song "Handle With Care" was such a success that the group decided to
record a full album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (1988). Roy Orbison's
sudden death cast a shadow on the success and shortly afterwards Del
Shannon, whom the remaining Wilburys had in mind as a replacement,
committed suicide. A second Wilburys album, mysteriously called
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 (1990), followed but couldn't quite live up to
expectations.
Petty rejoined with the Heartbreakers for his next album, Into the Great
Wide Open in 1991. It was again produced by Jeff Lynne and includes the
hit singles "Learning To Fly" and "Into The Great Wide Open", the latter
featuring Johnny Depp, Gabrielle Anwar and Faye Dunaway in the video.
In 1994, Petty released his second solo album, Wildflowers, which
included hit singles "You Don't Know How It Feels", "You Wreck Me",
"It's Good to Be King", "A Higher Place" and "Honey Bee". A year later,
a six CD Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers box-set was released, entitled
Playback. Approximately half of the tracks were previously available on
albums, while the rest were B-sides, demos and live tracks. Two notable
tracks are a version of Tom's famous duet with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood
Mac, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", which Tom sings alone, and the
song "Waiting For Tonight," which features vocals from The Bangles. The
latter song also appeared on the two CD anthology released in 2000.
Tom Petty Tickets
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Tom Petty Tickets
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Clark County Amp. Ridgefield, WA
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08.01.06
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Spokane, WA
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08.04.06
Smirnoff Music Centre
Dallas, TX
Tom Petty
08.05.06
Woodlands Pavilion Spring, TX
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08.08.06
DTE Energy Music Clarkson, MI
Tom Petty
08.12.06
NE Dodge Center
Hartford, CT
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