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Saluting Tom Petty, Most Agreed-Upon U.S. Rocker

Half-a-century later, few artists are as embedded in the American cultural experience as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

8 Hit Songs You Might Not Know Tom Petty Wrote

The "Free Fallin'" songsmith wrote with George Harrison, Stevie Nicks, and Bob Dylan.

4 Must-Have Albums To Start Your Tom Petty Vinyl Collection

Tom Petty (Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Tom Petty made it tough to boil his album collection to just four. But we made those choices to hel...

Why Tom Petty Credits This Star-Studded Music Video for This Classic Track’s Success: “It’s a Rare Instance”

BLOOMINGTON, MN - SEPTEMBER 4: Tom Petty performs on the Touring The Great Wide Open Tour at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota on September 4, 1991. (Photo by Jim Steinfeldt...

The 'Big 4' of Tom Petty Albums

We're talking both solo and with the Heartbreakers here. Continue reading…

50th Anniversary of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Debut

I suspect the estate of Tom Petty and Universal Music Enterprises are preparing a 50th edition of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ first LP in the summer of 2026. As a recording ar...

Remembering When Robbie Robertson’s Input Helped Salvage a Classic Tom Petty Ballad in 1985

Remembering When a Fleetwood Mac Star (And It’s Not the One You Think) Made a Guest Appearance on a Tom Petty Classic in...

Outtake; Also ran in W 8/1/1996 p.69; Tom Petty performing at the AmFar's awards ceremony where Magic Johnson was honored with the Courage Award at the charity's Country Western ni...

4 Outstanding Songs From Rock Acts That Didn’t Do Much on the 1981 Pop Charts

CHICAGO, IL - 1981: Singer Tom Petty, playing the guitar, performs on stage during a 1981 Chicago, Illinois, concert. Petty and his band, "The Heartbreakers," were in the middle of...

Remembering When a Record Label Rejected a Soon-To-Be Classic Tom Petty Album in 1988

Tom Petty Estate Celebrates 50 Years With Expanded Mixes Of “American Girl” And “Breakdown”

om Petty’s legacy continues to shine as the Tom Petty Estate marks the 50th anniversary of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with newly mixed and extended versions of two of the band...

3 Songs From the 1980s That Could Have Been Country Standards in Another Lifetime

Tom Petty (Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) These songs from the 1980s could've been country standards in another lifetime. With a few slight a...

5 “What If?” Classic Rock Covers I Wish We’d Gotten

Tom Petty (Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) What if one iconic artist covered another? Take a trip powered by pure rock 'n' roll imagination wi...

How Tom Petty Got His “Brain Scarred” and a Major Life Epiphany at a 1960s House Party

Tom Petty performs circa 1979 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) How Tom Petty turned a revelatory night (for better or worse) into his under...

“I played that lick and went home. An hour later, the phone rang. Tom said, ‘You’ve got to come back. We want to put tha...

Campbell's guitar noodling and Petty's ear for a good hook resulted in their first Top 40 hit

Why Tom Petty Once Argued The Heartbreakers’ Split Was a Blessing in Disguise (And All the Great Music That Proved It)

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 1977 (Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage) Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers split ways temporarily in the late 1980s, which the frontman said was a bless...

40 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Brings True Confessions Tour to America

He was backed at the time by none other than Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Continue reading…

40 years on from an ill-fated breakthrough, The Del Fuegos resume their rambunctious roots-rock mission

“Tom Petty would swing by our dressing room because we had the best pot”

Tom Petty Fans Can Expect ‘All Kinds of Things’ This Year

Adria Petty and Ryan Ulyate discuss the latest Boston 1978 archival release and share that there's a good amount of unreleased material incoming to celebrate the group's 50th anniv...

Trivia Quiz: Free Fallin'

Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Jun 14, 2026 A Music Quiz : How well do you know this song by Tom Petty? 1. Complete the lyrics: "She's a good girl, loves her mama, loves...

"It was a gift. It came from that mysterious place that lyrics sometimes come from": The Tom Petty reject that gave Don...

From an unwanted demo came Don Henley's Boys Of Summer, a song that aches with nostalgia and innocence

Holly Humberstone Unwinds on Her Tour Bus By Spinning Tom Petty, Van Morrison, and Big Thief

Backstage at Gov Ball, the singer-songwriter broke down some of her favorite songs — and why Flyte are “the most underrated band of all time” — for Rolling Stone’s Song Shuffle

“I didn’t like it, but Tom said, ‘No, it’s great. Now you’ve got to double it’”: Mike Campbell on the riff he wanted to...

Campbell was forced to get creative to make a Heartbreakers classic

90s rocker looks worlds away from his indie heartthrob days 30 years after writing iconic anthem - can you guess who he...

A 90s rocker looks worlds away from his indie heartthrob days 30 years after writing an iconic anthem which famously took him just thirty minutes to write.