When Tom Petty (Gainesville Florida, 1950) as a teenager for the first time The Rolling Stones heard, he thought: "Hey, I can too." With his regular band The Heartbreakers he shares, like the Stones, the love for simple but effective bluesy rock. After a long and unsuccessful start-up phase, including the group Mudcrutch, Petty hit in 1979 with the jackpot Damn The Torpedoes, the debut album by Tom
… Petty & The Heartbreakers. Two singles, Do not Do Me Like That and Refugee, end up in the US top 40. Petty recounts his drawling voice about the dreams and failures of ordinary Americans. Into The Great Wide Open (1991) is another milestone in Petty's career, both artistically and commercially.more
