This page will contain wikis about Tom Petty, as they become available.Tom PettyTom PettyThomas Earl Petty (born October 20, 1953 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. Petty did not have any musical aspirations before Elvis Presley visited his hometown. After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench) he began his recording career with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when the band broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut album. Still, it took America a full year to catch up to the album. "Breakdown" was re-released to radio and became a Top 40 hit in 1977 after word filtered back the band was creating a firestorm over in England. Their 1978's second album You're Gonna Get It! proved the debut album's intensity was no fluke. Marking the band's first gold album, it features the singles "Listen To Her Heart" and "I Need To Know." Shortly after its release the band was dragged into a legal dispute when ABC Record, Shelter's mother company, was sold to MCA Records. Petty refused to be simply transferred to another record label without his consent. He held fast to his principles for a long nine months, which eventually leaded to him filing for bankruptcy. After the dispute was settled, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released their third album 'Damn The Torpedoes' (1979) that rapidly became triple-platinum. It includes "Refugee", their US breakthrough single. 'Damn The Torpedoes' was followed by the unsuccessful but critically acclaimed Hard Promises (1981). On their fifth album Long After Dark (1982) bass player Ron Blair was replaced by Howie Epstein, giving The Heartbreakers their final line-up. However, frontman Tom Petty had problems coping with the stress and success and decided to slow things down. On their come-back album Southern Accents (1985) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers picked up where they left off. The recording was not without problems - Petty became frustrated during the mixing process and broke his left hand after punching it through a wall. The album includes the hit single "Don't Come Around Here No More" which was produced by Dave Stewart (The Eurythmics). A successful concert tour led to the live album Pack Up The Plantation-Live! (1985). Their live capabilities were put to the test when Bob Dylan invited Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to join him on his True Confessions-tour through the US, Australia, Japan ('86) and Europe ('87). In 1987, the group released Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), a studio album that sounds as if it was recorded live, a technique they borrowed from Bob Dylan. It includes "jammin' Me," a song which Petty wrote with Dylan. In 1989, Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever. Though nominally a solo project, other Heartbreakers and well-known musicians participated in the album's production. Mike Campbell co-produced the album with Petty and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was in the Billboard Top Ten chart for over 34 weeks and earned triple-platinum status, along the way spawning such hits as "I Won't Back Down," "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down A Dream." Prior to Full Moon Fever, Lynne and Petty worked together in the all-stars band Traveling Wilburys, which also counted Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison) as members. Traveling Wilburys started as a joke in order to record a B-side for a George Harrison single. But the song "Handle Me With Care" was such a success that the group decided to record a full album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (1988). Roy Orbison's sudden death casted a shadow on the success and shortly afterwards Del Shannon, whom the remaining Wilburys had in mind as a replacement, comitted suicide. A second Wilburys album, mysteriously called Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 (1990), followed but couldn't quite live up to the expectations. Petty rejoined with the Heartbreakers for his next album, Into the Great Wide Open in 1991. It was again produced by Jeff Lynne and includes the hit singles "Learning To Fly" and "Into The Great Wide Open". In 1994, Petty released his second solo album, Wildflowers, which also included the hit singles "You Don't Know How It Feels", "You Wreck Me", "It's Good to Be King", "A Higher Place" and "Honey Bee". He has been honored with 10 Grammy Award nominations since 1981. In that year he received his first nomination for his collaboration with Stevie Nicks, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" in the category of Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal. Petty earned a Grammy Award in 1989 for Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal for his work with the Traveling Wilburys. In 1994 he received another two Grammy Awards: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("You Don't Know How It Feels") and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical). Wildflowers also garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Other Wildflowers achievements included Best Male Video Award for "You Don't Know How It Feels" at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers won the same award in 1994 with the video "Mary Jane's Last Dance". At the 1994 ceremony, Petty was also presented with the Video Vanguard Award, citing his longtime contributions to the field. As a songwriter, Tom Petty was acknowledged in May 1996 with the prestigious Golden Note Award from ASCAP. In April 1996, Petty received UCLA's George And Ira Gershwin Award For Lifetime Musical Achievement. Previous recipients of the university's award include Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. In 2002 the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1999 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7018 Hollywood Blvd., an honor that acknowledges both their musical achievements and their humanitarian involvement with such organizations as Greenpeace, the National Veteran's Foundation, USA Harvest, Rock And Wrap It Up, and AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research). Discography
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In April 1996, Petty received UCLA's George And Ira Gershwin Award For Lifetime Musical Achievement. (Cher was similarly unlucky with the song The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia -- after she turned it down, it was recorded by Vicki Lawrence, who scored a #1 hit with it.). As a songwriter, Tom Petty was acknowledged in May 1996 with the prestigious Golden Note Award from ASCAP. #1 single. At the 1994 ceremony, Petty was also presented with the Video Vanguard Award, citing his longtime contributions to the field. She was equally fortunate with Angie Baby (written by Alan O'Day) -- it was first offered to Cher, who turned it down, so it was then offered to Reddy, who snapped it up, and it became her third U.S. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers won the same award in 1994 with the video "Mary Jane's Last Dance". charts and was a hit in several other countries including Australia. Ironcically, the DJs then began playing the other side of Midler's record, and this made a hit out that B-side, which was her version of the Andrew Sisters' classic Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Other Wildflowers achievements included Best Male Video Award for "You Don't Know How It Feels" at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. Reddy's version was released in the summer of 1973, just two days ahead Midler's version, but disc-jockeys preferred Reddy's rendition and it eventually went to #1 on the U.S. Wildflowers also garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Fortunately for Reddy, Streisand refused to sing the song, so United Artists song plugger Wally Schuster called Jeff Wald and offered the song and the completed backing track to Reddy, who put her own vocal on it. In 1994 he received another two Grammy Awards: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("You Don't Know How It Feels") and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical). When the song started to get airplay, Barbra Streisand's producer Tom Catalano decided that Streisand could have a pop hit with it, so he had an instrumental backing track recorded. Petty earned a Grammy Award in 1989 for Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal for his work with the Traveling Wilburys. Both Bette Midler and the young Tanya Tucker recorded their own versions of Delta Dawn just before Reddy recorded hers. In that year he received his first nomination for his collaboration with Stevie Nicks, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" in the category of Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal. The stories behind two of Reddy's biggest hits illustrate the often fickle nature of success in the music business. He has been honored with 10 Grammy Award nominations since 1981. Her last Top 20 record was a revival of Cilla Black's 1964 hit You're My World, co-produced by Kim Fowley. In 1994, Petty released his second solo album, Wildflowers, which also included the hit singles "You Don't Know How It Feels", "You Wreck Me", "It's Good to Be King", "A Higher Place" and "Honey Bee". These included the Alex Harvey country ballad Delta Dawn ( #1, 1973), Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress), Keep On Singing (#15, 1974), 'You And Me Against The World' (written by Paul Williams and featuring daughter Traci daughter Traci reciting the spoken bookends), Emotion, Peaceful (#15), Angie Baby (#1, 1974), the Carole King - Gerry Goffin song I Can't Hear You No More (1976). It was again produced by Jeff Lynne and includes the hit singles "Learning To Fly" and "Into The Great Wide Open". Top 40 hits including two more #1 hits. Petty rejoined with the Heartbreakers for his next album, Into the Great Wide Open in 1991. Over the next five years, she had more than a dozen other U.S. 3 (1990), followed but couldn't quite live up to the expectations. The single earned a Grammy Award and at the awards ceremony she concluded her acceptance speech by famously thanking God "because She makes everything possible". A second Wilburys album, mysteriously called Traveling Wilburys Vol. Reddy has attributed the impetus for writing I Am Woman and her early awareness of the women's movement to expatriate Australian rock critic and pioneer feminist Lillian Roxon. Roy Orbison's sudden death casted a shadow on the success and shortly afterwards Del Shannon, whom the remaining Wilburys had in mind as a replacement, comitted suicide. She scored an international hit in 1972 with a re-recorded version of a song she co-wrote with Australian musician Ray Burton, the feminist anthem "I Am Woman", which became her first U.S #1. 1 (1988). hit (1971) was a cover of I Don't Know How To Love Him (from Jesus Christ Superstar. But the song "Handle Me With Care" was such a success that the group decided to record a full album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. Reddy's first Top 40 U.S. Traveling Wilburys started as a joke in order to record a B-side for a George Harrison single. Reddy was also instrumental in furthering Newton-John's career -- she encouraged her friend to move from Britain to the United States in the early 1970s, and Olivia won the starring role of Sandy in the hit film version of the musical Grease after a chance meeting with the film's producer Alan Carr at a party at Reddy's house. Prior to Full Moon Fever, Lynne and Petty worked together in the all-stars band Traveling Wilburys, which also counted Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison) as members. Top 40 singles between 1971 and 1978. It was in the Billboard Top Ten chart for over 34 weeks and earned triple-platinum status, along the way spawning such hits as "I Won't Back Down," "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down A Dream.". Alongside her friend (and fellow Australian expatriate) Olivia Newton-John, Reddy became one of the most successful female recording artists of the Seventies, with fourteen U.S. Mike Campbell co-produced the album with Petty and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Twenty-seven labels rejected her before she was finally signed to a contract with Capitol Records in 1970. Though nominally a solo project, other Heartbreakers and well-known musicians participated in the album's production. After a stint in Chicago, the family moved to Los Angeles where Reddy tried to established herself as a recording artist. In 1989, Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever. Settling initially in New York, she met Jeff Wald, then an agent with the William Morris Agency; the couple began living together four days later and she and Wald (who became her manager) subsequently married. It includes "jammin' Me," a song which Petty wrote with Dylan. After beginning her career in radio and television in Australia, she won a talent contest on the Australian pop music TV show Bandstand which enabled her to move to the United States in 1966. In 1987, the group released Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), a studio album that sounds as if it was recorded live, a technique they borrowed from Bob Dylan. In her late teens she was briefly married an older musician, with whom she had a daughter, Traci, but they divorced soon afterwards. Their live capabilities were put to the test when Bob Dylan invited Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to join him on his True Confessions-tour through the US, Australia, Japan ('86) and Europe ('87). Reddy began performing on stage with her parents at four years of age. A successful concert tour led to the live album Pack Up The Plantation-Live! (1985). Reddy was born into a well-known Australian show business family -- her parents, well-known performers on the Australian vaudeville circuit, were actress and singer Stella Lamond and writer-actor-comedian Max Reddy; her older sister is actress-singer Toni Lamond and her nephew is actor-singer Tony Sheldon. The album includes the hit single "Don't Come Around Here No More" which was produced by Dave Stewart (The Eurythmics). She has sold more than 15 million albums and 10 million singles, and was the first Australian-born performer to win a Grammy award. The recording was not without problems - Petty became frustrated during the mixing process and broke his left hand after punching it through a wall. #1 singles. On their come-back album Southern Accents (1985) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers picked up where they left off. Melbourne, Australia, October 25, 1942 is an Australian-born pop singer who was immensely successful in the 1970s with numerous hit records including three U.S. However, frontman Tom Petty had problems coping with the stress and success and decided to slow things down. Helen Reddy (b. On their fifth album Long After Dark (1982) bass player Ron Blair was replaced by Howie Epstein, giving The Heartbreakers their final line-up. 'Damn The Torpedoes' was followed by the unsuccessful but critically acclaimed Hard Promises (1981). It includes "Refugee", their US breakthrough single. After the dispute was settled, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released their third album 'Damn The Torpedoes' (1979) that rapidly became triple-platinum. He held fast to his principles for a long nine months, which eventually leaded to him filing for bankruptcy. Petty refused to be simply transferred to another record label without his consent. Marking the band's first gold album, it features the singles "Listen To Her Heart" and "I Need To Know." Shortly after its release the band was dragged into a legal dispute when ABC Record, Shelter's mother company, was sold to MCA Records. Their 1978's second album You're Gonna Get It! proved the debut album's intensity was no fluke. Still, it took America a full year to catch up to the album. "Breakdown" was re-released to radio and became a Top 40 hit in 1977 after word filtered back the band was creating a firestorm over in England. Petty did not have any musical aspirations before Elvis Presley visited his hometown. After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench) he began his recording career with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when the band broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut album. Thomas Earl Petty (born October 20, 1953 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. " Nirvana to me was the most significant thing since the Beatles.". Some days are rocks.". "Some days are diamonds. It became her new religion.". "And she made a vow to have it all. "I don't mind workin', but I'm scared to suffer". Coming down is the hardest thing.". "I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. The young 'uns call it country, the yankees call it dumb.". "There's a southern accent, where I come from. I'm not afraid of you runnin' away honey, Iv'e got this feeling you won't.". "It's alright if you love me, It's alright if you don't. "I slept in your treehouse, my middle name is 'Earl'.". You see you don't have to live like a refugee.". "Everybody's had to fight to be free. 1976 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. 1977 You're Gonna Get It!. 1979 Damn the Torpedoes. 1981 Hard Promises. 1982 Long after Dark. 1985 Southern Accents. 1986 Pack up the Plantation: Live! (live). 1987 Let Me Up (I've had Enough). 1 (Traveling Wilburys). 1988 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1989 Full Moon Fever (solo). 3 (Traveling Wilburys). 1990 Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1991 Into the Great Wide Open. 1993 Greatest Hits. 1994 Wildflowers (solo). 1995 Playback (6-CD boxed set). 1996 She's the One (soundtrack). 1999 Echo. 2000 Anthology - Through The Years. 2002 The Last DJ. |