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Celebrating Tom Petty With Amazing Facts About His Life


It’s incredibly hard to discuss the landscape of American rock & roll music in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s without including Tom Petty in that discussion. P

Petty also formed a supergroup with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison, and spent his free time fighting for the rights of every musician who wanted to step on a stage and share their art with the world. Petty appeared on episodes that featured a bunch of other five-timers including Buck Henry, Steve Martin, John Goodman, Tom Hanks, and the ever-present Alec Baldwin. To be fair, it wasn't B.F. Goodrich, but rather an ad agency working with the tire manufacturer who stole a Tom Petty song by creating a horrible knockoff version of "Mary's New Car."

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