American Songwriter

The Agonizing Lyric That May Have Hit Too Close to Home for Tom Petty

Tom Petty unloaded all his relationship angst into "Echo". Perhaps too much so, because he didn't want to revisit the song.
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How a Bottle of Vitamins Helped Save a Tom Petty Hit

Tom Petty wrote most of the Heartbreakers‘ songs, but guitarist Mike Campbell‘s role in the band over the years should not be ...
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Tom Petty's throwaway guitar riff turned out to be one of the Heartbreakers' biggest hits — thanks to Rick Rubin

Tom Petty’s 1993 Greatest Hits compilation may have been a fan-pleasing collection of prime cuts, but as far as Petty was concerned it was a contract breaker and nothing more. Eager to leave MCA ...

Tom Petty and Mike Campbell on the song they couldn’t give Stevie Nicks — and the one they did that became a hit

For all that's made of Stevie Nicks’ songwriting partnership with former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, her ...
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Guitarist Mike Campbell had a challenging relationship with Tom Petty, but ‘love and respect’ never wavered

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 ...

The Tom Petty song his band hated with a passion: “Forget it, see you down the road”

Tom Petty had a pedigree of writing strong songs, but none of the Heartbreakers saw the appeal in creating this B-side.