Remembering Tom Petty: The Elvis fan, music icon, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Tom Petty became interested in rock when he met Elvis Presley at the age of ten
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Tom Petty performs with The Heartbreakers at Madison Square Garden in New York. Petty died at age 66. Spokeswoman Carla Sacks says Petty died Monday night, 2 October 2017, at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after he suffered cardiac arrest. Image from AP
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This rock icon became interested in the genre when he met Elvis Presley at age ten; he said he knew he wanted to form a band when he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Image from AP
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Petty formed his first band, Mudcrutch, in Gainesville at the age of 20. After the band dissolved in 1975, Petty recruited fellow Mudcrutchers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, along with Ron Blair and Stan Lynch to form his most popular group, the Heartbreakers. Image from AP
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was together for over thirty years and sold over thirty million albums. Image from Reuters
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