“You and I will meet again, when we are least expecting it, one day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend. For you and I will meet again” Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Petty served as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers melded California rock with a deep, stubborn Southern heritage to produce a long string of durable hits. Sixty Six is an odd number, nowhere close to death, yet his heart stopped pumping the beats he lived to live but heart said otherwise, quits the stage at 66 Los Angeles Eldest of two sons of Kitty (Avery) and Earl Petty his passion for rock and …show more content…
Although the band, which featured future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, were popular in Gainesville, their recordings went unnoticed by a mainstream audience. Their only single, "Depot Street", was released in 1975 by Shelter Records, but was a failure. After Mudcrutch split up, Petty reluctantly agreed to pursue a solo career. Roughing up a roller coaster journey of rock music Petty, fairly or not, is often talked about as a voice for the center, someone whose music is like the point where all the tangled roads on the map of rock-and-roll history …show more content…
He didn’t provoke, he didn’t confuse, he didn’t alienate. As the wave of remembrance following his death, he performed well, again and again, in a job that nearly everyone could appreciate. And yet there are people for whom the name Tom Petty conjures not a crackling guitar riff but the gurgle of an electric sitar, not a shout-out-the-window yowl but a confused mumble, not denim and open roads but a checker-board nightmare of cannibalism. They are people who first really encountered him from “Don’t Come around Here No More,” the 1985 hit that stands as an outlier in his catalogue yet can be ranked in influence not far behind “American Girl” or “Free Fallin’ George Kot from Chicago Tribunes quotes: Petty wrote dozens of classic songs “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It),” from “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” (1976): The eeriest, nastiest track on the band’s debut “I Need to Know,” from “You’re Gonna Get It” (1978) “Louisiana Rain,” from “Damn the Torpedoes” (1979) “A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me),” from “Hard Promises” (1981) “The Best of Everything,” from “Southern Accents” (1985) Chicago Tribune further