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Tom Petty's 'You Got Lucky' Wasn't What Fans Thought It Was

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gave us hits like "American Girl" and "Free Fallin'," but lead singer Tom Petty wrote hundreds of songs over the years. One of the most underrated songs of his career ...
American Songwriter

Tom Petty Collaborators Open Up on the Making of ‘You Got Lucky’

Guitars took a backseat to synths on “You Got Lucky,” the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark. The legendary singer-songwriter continued to lean into the futuristic theme ...
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Tom Petty on the song that defined him as a new kind of guitar-slinging American rocker

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ross Marino Archive/MediaPunch/Alamy Tom Petty may belong to a long line of American ...
American Songwriter

How a Drum Loop and Synthesizer Kick-Started Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “You Got Lucky”

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ fifth studio album Long After Dark landed with a series of firsts for the band. It was the first to feature bassist and backing vocalist Howie Epstein, replacing Ron ...
Los Angeles Times

Guitarist Mike Campbell had a challenging relationship with Tom Petty, but ‘love and respect’ never wavered

In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville, Fla., cover band called Mudcrutch — played one of his ...