Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his new memoir, Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell recalls the highs and lows of working with Tom Petty. (Robert Gauthier / ...

Until the recent publication of his memoir Heartbreaker, Mike Campbell, who is best known as the founding lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, didn’t set out to write a book. When he was ...

The guitarist didn’t have the gear but he had the chops, and that was all that really mattered ...

Singer and guitarist Mike Campbell has spent four decades making great rock 'n' roll. And he’s still truckin'. Campbell and his band, The Dirty Knobs, just released a third album, “Vagabonds, Virgins ...

Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell explained why he never confronted his bandleader Tom Petty before Petty’s 2017 death from an accidental drug overdose. “I don’t torture myself [over Petty’s death ...

Throughout their decades-long tenure together, Tom Petty, his lead guitarist and co-writer Mike Campbell, and their band, the Heartbreakers, had no small shortage of career-defining hits. From ...

In what may be the sole expression of explicit ego he ever really displayed during his history with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell has written A Memoir describing his time as guitarist ...

Former Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ guitarist Mike Campbell will be doing double-duty when he takes the stage at The Magnolia tonight. He’ll be performing with The Dirty Knobs, the band he formed in ...

Guitarist and songwriter Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac) and his band The Dirty Knobs are kicking off a summer tour across the U.S. and Canada, alongside debuting their ...

In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville, Fla., cover band called Mudcrutch — played one of his ...