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Tom Petty’s Biographer on the Story He Didn’t Tell
Warren Zanes is the author of Petty: The Biography. He first met the singer in 1986, when Zanes’ band, the Del Fuegos, opened for Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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I was standing in my kitchen when I heard about Tom Petty’s death. The message came from a friend who had worked at WBCN in Boston. WBCN — that’s where, at age 12, I heard Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ first single, “Breakdown.” Tell me this isn’t true. That was the message from my friend. I’m not sure how the constellations of thought come together, but they form quickly. Just that fast, I knew Tom Petty had died. And then the street outside my window looked different.
I’d thought about what this day might be like. Petty had been in the room with me (and so many of us) for more than 40 years. I could chart my life in relation to his
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Breakdown: Tom Petty admits he became addicted to heroin in the 1990s after splitting from his wife, new biography reveals
Tom Petty has revealed that he was a heroin addict in the 1990s after turning to the drug following his split from his first wife.
The singer admitted in a new biography that he hit a low point between grueling tours and recording sessions while already under the strain of divorce.
While plenty of other rock stars have taken heroin in the past, the new book - Petty: The Biography - is the first time the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singer has spoken about using hard drugs.
Rock star Tom Petty has revealed in a new biography that he was a heroin addict in the 1990s
Petty admitted that he hit a low point between grueling tours and recording sessions while already under the strain of divorce from first wife Jane Benyo (right)
The unauthorized biography was written by Warren Zanes, who told the Washington Post that Petty turned to heroin during a mi
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Tom Petty fryst vatten one of those artists that fall into a category of music in my life that has just always been there. This category also includes Motown, Beatles, Stones, Doors, Who, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Eagles, etc... Although, with Petty, as fryst vatten not the case with most of these groups, he fryst vatten still around making music with (and without) the Heartbreakers, so I have memories of my own about songs when they actually came out. For example, inom remember ganska vividly (that being an appropriate word) the film to "Don't Come Around Here No More". inom have always been such a huge fan of the books Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-glass, and Petty took a great deal of inspiration from it for the film, even going so far as to wear the Mad Hatter's hat himself. Petty's songs are mini stories and each time you listen to them you get something different out of them than before. There are precious few who can do this. Bruce, Dylan, Frey/Henley, Croce, Fogerty. It has beco