They performed "I Need to Know" during a June 1977 visit to Germany's Rockpalast TV show, 11 months before its release. Watch Tom Petty Perform 'I Need to Know' in Concert ...

Stewart says the Heartbreakers' 1985 smash “Don’t Come Around Here No More” became a tune for Petty after Nicks took a pass ...

The world might suck right now, but thankfully the Tom Petty estate recently released an unearthed 1993 demo of “You Don’t Know How it Feels,” the first taste of the long-awaited Wildflowers ...

Everybody knows the greatness of Tom Petty as a master of the rock-song form. ... ,” “I Need To Know,” “You Got Lucky,” and the apotheosis of this Petty genre, ...

If you've somehow missed Tom Petty's best songs—the ones even casual fans of music need to hear—we've got you covered. 9 Tom Petty Songs Every Music Fan—Every Human, Really—Needs to Know ...

Mike Campbell, left, Tom Petty, Stan Lynch, Benmont Tench and Howie Epstein of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Nov. 28, 1993. (Caroline Greyshock / Los Angeles Times) 15 / 24 ...

The Cameron Crowe-directed 1983 documentary 'Tom Petty: ... But then I started to really have fun doing it, asking him how he wrote ‘The Waiting’ and ‘I Need to Know,’ for example, ...

TOM PETTY: Everything. You know, I still see it as this really magical thing, and it was wonderful. I didn't have the money to have a vast record collection. So I learned everything, ...

Bob Dylan's son Jakob looked up to Tom Petty. He's also a musician, and he explained that he didn't know how Petty wrote so many good songs.

"Motivated by the lyrics of Tom Petty’s 'I Need to Know,' I decided to confront our problems and gave her an ultimatum: We had to fix what was broken or I was moving on," he recalls in the memoir.