"I [used] a pill bottle with a ridge on it — One A Day vitamins, I think," he explained in the same Guitar Player interview. It wasn't exactly what they were looking for though: "We decided that the ...

Although Tom Petty never stopped loving playing for his fans, he felt that a few songs had yet to wear out their welcome by ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench has announced his first tour dates for 2026.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will ...

For those familiar with This Is Spinal Tap, the 1984 "mockumentary" about a metal band struggling to succeed, you'll likely remember one of the film's funniest scenes in which bassist Derek Smalls ...

When Campbell gave it, he gave it good. In one early session for the group’s debut single, “Breakdown,” the guitarist devised what became the song’s signature hook. But as Petty told us, the lick — a ...

Tom Petty realized he was going about writing a song for Stevie Nicks all wrong. So, he decided to trade her tracks instead.

While Billie Joe Armstrong had a lot of all forms of punk rock, he felt that the right artist only needed to tell a story in ...

Tom Petty unloaded all his relationship angst into "Echo". Perhaps too much so, because he didn't want to revisit the song.