Tom Petty made his mark on the rock world by writing some of the strongest songs the genre has ever witnessed. But this guy ...

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

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 ...

Denial can be a powerful character trait to highlight in a song. A narrator who’s broken inside but is putting up a brave front makes for some fascinating emotional terrain. All the better when that ...