While Tom Petty and Bono are two completely different sides of rock music, they knew that some bands were too massive to be ...

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

Though he’s best known for directing masterpieces like “Say Anything” and “Jerry Maguire,” Rolling Stone journalist Cameron Crowe got started behind the camera with a documentary on Tom Petty in 1983, ...

Tom Petty was undeniably the driving force behind the band's sound, but he was not immune to criticism. When he introduced 'Travelin,' the song was met with hostility from his bandmates. Petty himself ...

Thirteen years before the famous Live Aid, one musician created a show that invented the idea of blending philanthropy with ...

The Los Angeles radio icon died from a heart attack. Jim Ladd, the Los Angeles radio icon who went on to champion rock music on SiriusXM's Deep Tracks for over a decade and inspired Tom Petty's "The ...

Occasionally, many feel country music deviates too far from the core of its pop-ready roots. Whenever that occurs, Tom Petty's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-level catalog emerges to re-root the genre — ...

For a guy as unfussy as Tom Petty, the drama surrounding his death Monday probably would have made the Florida-born rocker give one of his wry, sideways grins and shake his head. The Rock and Roll ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Petty was taken to UCLA Medical Center for a cardiac incident Sunday night, law enforcement has confirmed to the Los Angeles Times, but as of Monday afternoon there was no official ...

The music world is incredibly small, which is how a rock legend most associated with a West Coast band spent his teen years working with and mentoring Tom Petty, who built a musical legacy on his ...

Shawn Murphy was only a month into his retirement as a journalism professor when he made his first “Tom Petty pilgrimage” to Gainesville this past January. Not owning a smartphone, Murphy, 58, spent ...