Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

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February 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cool Summer: The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021

Every year it’s music. All day it’s music. All the time. And if it’s not then there’s a film on – and I’m usually noticing the music. Or it’s a podcast. Which has music. Or is an interview about music. When I’m reading it’s a music biography or it’s poetry – which has its own […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]