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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Y ou didn't have to know Tom Petty, or even listen to his music, to clock him as a cool guy.His long blond hair spent most of its time cut in a breezy feathered style, falling onto shoulders ...

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 ...

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, ...

Whether they know it or not, when people do a Tom Petty impression, they’re referring to this song. The best of Petty’s story songs from the Wilburys-Lynne era. 32.

A second album spawned two minor hits with classic songs, "I Need to Know" and "Listen to Her Heart." But Petty really hit his stride with the 1979 release of his masterful third album, "Damn the ...

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.

Bad Monkey’s official album, which includes 29 total songs — the 21 Petty covers and eight score selections — will be released on October 4 and serves as a bookend to a robust period of time ...

"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.