On this day (April 24) in 1989, Tom Petty released Full Moon Fever, his debut solo album. He finished the album the previous year. However, his label, MCA, refused to release it. While trying to ...

When Tom Petty released his debut album, the self-titled Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, he was confident but not cocky. "It is not really like anything you're going to hear," he said to the ...

In a classic case of the lick that nearly never came to be, Campbell's guitar noodling and Petty's ear for a good hook ...

Tom Petty made it tough to boil his album collection to just four. But we made those choices to help those starting their ...

Tom Petty was the architect behind classic hits like "Don't Do Me Like That" and "American Girl," which he performed alongside his band The Heartbreakers, as well as solo classics like "Free Fallin'." ...

Jeff said, ‘That’s a really good riff but there’s one chord too many.’ So I cut it back a chord and then – just to amuse Jeff, honestly – I sang that first verse”: How Tom Petty created his most ...

When Tom Petty released his debut album, the self-titled Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, he was confident but not cocky. “It is not really like anything you’re going to hear,” he said to the ...