This is one of Tom Petty’s most well-known songs, and certainly one of his greatest songs of all time. It’s a track that manages to fuse so many different types of rock music into a single anthemic ...

Tom Petty’s 1993 Greatest Hits compilation may have been a fan-pleasing collection of prime cuts, but as far as Petty was concerned it was a contract breaker and nothing more. Eager to leave MCA ...

Tom Petty thought he was just making another solo album. Instead he ended up performing open-heart surgery on himself, ...

Cultivating just the right environment for the studio is not always an easy task, considering all the external distractions, sicknesses, and general mindlessness that can cause a recording session to ...

Two new versions of Tom Petty classics—Eddie Vedder’s “Room at the Top” and Larkin Poe’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream”—are available to stream now. The covers, which premiered on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty radio ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK DOWN ...

Tom Petty led the band the Heartbreakers, whose other hits include "American Girl," "Listen To Her Heart," "Running Down A Dream" and "Breakdown." The band's classic 1982 album, "Long After Dark," was ...