For all the great heartland rock songs in history, Tom Petty was able to pump them out faster than his record company could ...

This is one of Tom Petty’s most well-known songs, and certainly one of his greatest songs of all time. It’s a track that manages to fuse so many different types of rock music into a single anthemic ...

Cultivating just the right environment for the studio is not always an easy task, considering all the external distractions, sicknesses, and general mindlessness that can cause a recording session to ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two new versions of Tom Petty classics—Eddie Vedder’s “Room at the Top” and Larkin ...

Rod Stewart nearly cast aside ‘Maggy May’, The Clash thought ‘Train in Vain’ would flop, and Tom Petty required divine ...

Tom Petty led the band the Heartbreakers, whose other hits include "American Girl," "Listen To Her Heart," "Running Down A Dream" and "Breakdown." The band's classic 1982 album, "Long After Dark," was ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK DOWN ...