However, it produced the No 13 singles hit Don’t Come Around Here No More. Home after a tour with the Heartbreakers, he had his wife, Dana, call up his rarely seen 2002 “Fun in the Desert” video, in which he tooled around a barren landscape on a mini-motorcycle, then asked her to track down a high school girlfriend on social media. He was one of my best friends. Each state has its own rules for mail-in absentee voting. At times, I think they were looking for some help, like, ‘I need to put a band together.’ We had this unit. So Tom, I know you’re standing next to me cause you always have been for so many years.”. There’s a reason why he was in the Wilburys with Bob, Roy and a Beatle. Petty’s days of multimillion sales were over, but the solo set Highway Companion (2006) was musically strong, and the band bounced back with Mojo (2010) and finally Hypnotic Eye (2014). “I never sought these people out,” Petty claimed when I asked him in 2009 about why he got along so well with legends. He didn’t settle for just being OK.”, Petty entered the last year of his life with confidence and pride. They fared better in the US with You’re Gonna Get It! “It really wasn’t Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – it was Tom Petty in the Heartbreakers,” claims Ferrone, an English-born session musician and former member of the Average White Band who played drums on Wildflowers as a sideman prior to becoming a Heartbreaker. Kitty worked in the Gainesville local tax office; Earl went through several jobs including running a grocery store, hawking wholesale goods from a truck to stores, and finally selling insurance. It was also the climax of their 40th Anniversary Tour, a 53-show celebration of the singer-guitarist’s unbroken lifetime with his band as one of rock & roll’s biggest, best and most committed live acts. And there was the day that an advance copy of Full Moon Fever arrived at Friar Park, the Harrisons’ English estate. The Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks and more pay tribute to a genius craftsman who never stopped believing in the power of rock & roll. Maybe some different points of view. I would try to write in the same fashion. “I’m sure thinking about that in the future will make me lose it. It was getting close to showtime. When Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge left the hospital with the future King of England, Kate entrusted her husband with holding their precious cargo. Nicks also touched on the tremendous amount of grief she’s felt since Petty’s death, which his family confirmed earlier this month was caused by an accidental drug overdose. We did on this record.”, Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. To ensure the best vocals, Scott recalls Petty taking a tip from the late Roy Orbison, whom he’d befriended in the Traveling Wilburys, and drinking a six-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola before each take. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Tom Petty, please visit our floral store. And one week later he died — but he got down the river. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. He was a real cat.” When Petty sang “a song by Jimmie Rodgers, Merle Haggard or the Searchers,” Tench insists, “he wasn’t a dilettante, trying something on. In October 2017, he died from an accidental overdose of prescribed medications, including fentanyl. I think we did.”, Listening back to those tapes proved surprisingly healing, for both the family and the band members. He really thought it was going to be OK: ‘I’ve had a broken hip for two years. “And those meetings are really boring.” But, he insisted, “I wouldn’t have hurt anybody.”, Mounting tensions within the Heartbreakers over Petty’s creative grip culminated in Lynch’s departure in 1994. “The loss of Tom Petty has just about broken my heart,” she said. We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote. In subsequent court filings, Dana called Adria “erratic” and “abusive,” and claimed she wanted to put her father’s name on products like salad dressing. We had to learn to trust him deeply and spiritually with the songs. And I don’t think it was necessary.” She pauses. It contained some of his finest songs, notably Refugee, Louisiana Rain and Even the Losers, which all became radio favourites. And you make the music. In 1961, an uncle working on the local set of an Elvis Presley movie, Follow That Dream, arranged for Petty and some family members to watch the filming and meet the star. In This Article: “We’re all on the backside of our 60s,” he told Rolling Stone. He died at 8:40 p.m. the next night, after a daylong vigil by his family, friends and bandmates. By 1974, the future core of the Heartbreakers – Petty, Campbell and Tench, another Gainesville native – had played on Mudcrutch’s debut single, “Depot Street.” Released the next year, it was a commercial bust on Shelter Records that eventually broke up that group. Obviously, they liked something we did. Their father, Earl, was “Jerry Lee Lewis if he didn’t play the piano. ©2020 Verizon Media. “Every one of them came to me. Mudcrutch also included the future Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell. “We recorded quite a lot of songs and dug them out, and the songs are just so cool.”, Petty would never live to see his dream project through. Follow me.’ That was the rehearsal. “I don’t think he even knew when it happened.” At one point, Dimitriades told Petty, “You can’t tour like that.” The singer responded, “Why not? Petty announced he had a new ballad and everyone hastily arranged for it to be cut right then, around midnight; it was so-last minute that Ferrone almost missed his dawn flight back to New York. It was surreal. Petty also found the time to relaunch Mudcrutch – with original guitarist Tom Leadon and drummer Randall Marsh – for two studio albums and national touring, the kind of action they never enjoyed the first time around. “He wouldn’t hear it. “I did search for a couple months for the original double-album sequencing,” says Adria. But I don’t recommend it to anyone.”. It was a classic-rock gimmick he had long avoided, but it spoke to how highly he regarded one of his signature works. For the Nov 3 election: States are making it easier for citizens to vote absentee by mail this year due to the coronavirus. You don’t have the budget to spend a year and a half on a record now.”, Drakoulias recalls the mood of the sessions as “like a frat house — lots of joking and laughing.” It became clear that the sessions were an oasis for Petty from everything else happening in his life. Not worth it.”, Petty was often in such pain on that tour, due to knee and hip issues, that he would be driven to the stage in a golf cart, and Ferrone had to walk him up the stairs to the stage.

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