Rattling off the names of Tom Petty's biggest hits is easy: "American Girl" and "Breakdown" from the Heartbreakers self-titled 1976 debut, "Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That" from Damn the Torpedoes ...

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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 ...

Over the course of a 40-year career, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had plenty of hit songs. The fan favorites just kept coming with each album, starting with their self-titled debut, which spawned ...

“None of the songs were particularly memorable,” Rubin continued, “but the guitar riff for “Last Dance With Mary Jane” was between two of the songs, like, after someone tuned up, just the first chords ...

When Hall of Fame Rock ‘n’ Roller Tom Petty died in 2017, tribute band Damn the Torpedoes (which already was a decade into play Petty shows) noticed more hard-core fans of the singer coming to its ...

The artist, who was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1950, has a voice that floats and pierces. He writes lyrics that live in pop lore and poetry. He’s as much a man of the country as he is of the ...

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 ...