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One Majorly Underrated Track From Each of Tom Petty’s Albums From the 1980s

Tom Petty enjoyed incredible success in the 1980s. Even these extremely underrated tracks from that era deserve extreme attention.

The album Tom Petty said was too tricky for Ringo Starr: “Trickier than you thought, aren’t they?”

Despite Ringo Starr being one of the greatest drummers of all time, Tom Petty knew some tunes could knock him on his ass.
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How a Bottle of Vitamins Helped Save a Tom Petty Hit

"I [used] a pill bottle with a ridge on it — One A Day vitamins, I think," he explained in the same Guitar Player interview. It wasn't exactly what they were looking for though: "We decided that the ...
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On This Day in 2014, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Released Their First and Only No. 1 Album

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Went Out on a High Note Hypnotic Eye captured what made Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers one of the best rock bands in the world for decades. The songs contain ...

The Tom Petty classic that took 100 takes to nail – and ended up being “an albatross” around their necks

When Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers teamed up with a hotshot new producer for a 1979 classic, it nearly broke the band ...