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Posts Tagged Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

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October 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Tom Petty

What a day. First that awful news from Las Vegas. Many of us went to bed on that last night, woke to hear the full horror, from one death to twenty, then over 50, some 400 injured… For music fans the news didn’t get better as the new day started. First the story that Tom […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Eulogy, Mudcrutch, R.I.P., R.I.P. Tom Petty, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ·

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December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 4 – Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums

Not all live albums are created equally – many are built in the studio after with overdubs, some just feature crowd-noise endlessly, Neil Young’s brand new live album has him substituting out the crowd for animal noise. There are some great, great live albums out there – where the energy of the crowd is so […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged B.B. King, Breakdown, Concert, Do You Feel Like We Do, Double Live Album, Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: # 4, Five Songs For Friday: # 4 - Five Great Tracks From Five Great Live Albums, Frampton Comes Alive, Friday, How Blue Can You Get, King Curtis, Live, Live Album, Live At Fillmore West, Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963, Live In Chicago, Memphis Soul Stew, Neil Young, Pack Up The Plantation, Peter Frampton, Sam Cooke, Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down), Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Weekend, Ween ·

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January 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Warren Zanes: Petty – The Biography

Petty: The Biography Warren Zanes Henry Holt & Co/First Edition edition Tom Petty – class act. Magnificent run of albums and singles, kick-ass live band, a bit of time out on his own, but a fantastic bandleader, also a member of music’s first serious attempt at a living Mount Rushmore of Rock band, The Traveling […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biography, Bob Dylan, Book, Book Review, Dusty In Memphis, George Harrison, Interviews, Live Anthology, Music Bio, Peter Bogdonavich, Petty: The Biography, Runnin' Down A Dream, Stan Lynch, Stevie Nicks, The Heartbreakers, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Warren Zanes: Petty - The Biography ·

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April 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1383

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (1976) I can’t remember when I first heard this album – I was already a convert, sold on Damn The Torpedoes and that live album, Pack Up The Plantation. And then everything on from there. So I arrived back at this debut some time after, […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1976, American Girl, Breakdown, Damn The Torpedoes, Joan Armatrading, Neil Diamond, Pack Up The Plantation - Live!, Rockin' Around (With You), S/T, Tom Petty, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Vinyl ·

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