Tom Petty was many things during his career – but never a sitting target. His gumption rose to the surface defiantly when he withheld his fourth album, Hard Promises, from label MCA, who wanted to put ...

With his long blond hair and high cheekbones, Tom Petty looked like a central-casting rock star. The nasal whine of his voice, propensity to pick fights with the music industry, and loyalty to the ...

Tom Petty battled with record companies throughout on a few different occasions in his career. On his 2002 album The Last DJ, he took on pretty much the entire music industry, and fans and critics ...

Perhaps no artist has ever been as candid about the ups and downs of their catalog as Tom Petty. On the surface, Long After Dark, the 1982 album by Petty and the Heartbreakers, continued a hot streak ...

Tom Petty’s been gone for seven years, but he seems as ubiquitous as ever in 2024. The concert film Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, directed by Cameron Crowe and aired on MTV just once in 1983, ...