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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Mary Jane's Last Dance (Official Music Video)
Music video by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers performing Mary Jane's Last Dance. (C) 1993 Geffen Records
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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Refugee
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee
Music video by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers performing Refugee. (C) 1979 Geffen Records
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Tom Petty performs on stage in New York. 1977
Photograph: Michael Putland Getty Images
Heartbreakers frontman Tom Petty – a life in pictures G Tuesday 3 October 2017 05.42 BST
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Tom Petty Thomas 1950-2017
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
songwriter who melded California rock with a deep, stubborn Southern heritage
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with the Heartbreakers, the band he formed in the mid-1970s, and on his own, Mr. Petty wrote pithy, hardheaded songs that gave a contemporary clarity to 1960s roots.
His voice was grainy and unpretty, with a Florida drawl that he proudly displayed.
Mr. Petty’s songs were staples of FM rock radio through decades, and with hits like “Refugee,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “Free Fallin’” and “Into the Great Wide Open,” Mr. Petty sold millions of albums and headlined arenas and festivals well into 2017.
He played the Super Bowl halftime show in 2008 and entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
But his songs stayed down-to-earth, with sturdy guitar riffs carrying lyrics that spoke for underdogs and ornery outcasts.
In his 1989 hit, “I Won’t Back Down,” he sang, “You can stand me up at the gates of hell / But I won’t back down.”
Mr. Petty’s songwriting was shaped by the music he heard growing up:
the ringing folk-rock guitars of the Byrds, the crunch of the Rolling Stones, the caustic insights of Bob Dylan, the melodic turns of the Beatles, the steadfast backbeat of Southern soul and the twang of country-rock.
Onstage, the Heartbreakers sometimes expanded songs toward psychedelia-tinged jams.
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