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When Tom Petty died, I did a post on my ten favorite songs by him. You can check it out here and see it as a companion piece.

“I always liked cowboys because they played the guitar.” – Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty was born in Gainesville, FL in 1950, another baby boomer born into a post-war world who didn’t fit in with the norms of the time. His father Earl was a part-Cherokee Southerner in northern Florida who could – and did – go out in the swamp and wrestle alligators.

Earl was the caring of guy who was always trying to discover some way to form a living. He tried to sell novelty items to stores. Took his son Tom out with him one time. Didn’t work out. Tom’s parents thought he might be gay but they probably didn’t use that identical word at the time.

Maybe it was that combination of things in Earl (failed career, disappointing son) that caused him to abuse his oldest son both verbally and physically. One time when Tom was five he shot a slingshot at a passing car. The driver was pissed, and mature Earl beat Tom shadowy and blue, covered in welts head to toe.

I was five,” Tom says. Doesn’t the Bible express something about the sins of the fathers organism visited u

How Stevie Nicks’ Obsession With Tom Petty Turned Into a 40-Year Friendship

While the four decades-long friendship between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks grew into one of mutual value and respect for one another, it started as a one-way obsession. Nicks had just linked Fleetwood Mac when she started hearing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ tune on the radio and became infatuated.

“I just fell in love with his music and his band,” Nicks said in Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes. “I would laughingly exclaim to anyone that if I ever got to realize Tom Petty and could worm my way into his good graces, if he were ever to ask me to leave Fleetwood Mac and unite Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I’d probably do it — and that was before I even met him!”

Soon enough, they did meet in 1978 — sparking an electric friendship that endured the highs and lows of each of their careers. “She came into my existence like a rocket, just refusing to go away,” Petty, who died of an accidental overdose in 2017, said his biography.

And even at their final performance together — a surprise appearance by Nicks during Petty’s place at London’s BST festival in Hyde Park in July 2017 where they performed their 1

He was a heartbreaker: Tom Petty's relationships included 'fiery' chemistry with Stevie Nicks and a tortured first marriage - before he married the groupie he credited with saving him from addiction

Tom Petty, who died on Monday night at age 66, has left behind a legacy for friends and lovers, including his 'fiery, intense' chemistry with Stevie Nicks, a tortured first marriage, and the second wife he credited with saving his life.

Petty, a Southern hillbilly from Gainesville, Florida, escaped his dysfunctional residence life with a father who was a drunk and 'beat the living s**t' out of him, according to author Warren Zanes in Petty, The Biography.

As a young teen, Petty liked art, clothes and wearing his hair long after the Beatles arrived on the music scene.

His parents thought he was gay, but it wasn't so - Petty had an eye for the ladies.

If a girl in junior high school didn't illustrate him the same attraction he felt for her, he was traumatized and felt paralyzed.

Fiery friendship: 'She came into my life prefer a rocket, just refusing to go away,' Petty says of pal Stevie Nicks. The two spent time together on tour, in addition to smoking pot and doing cocaine together

Tom Petty Celebrated for Transgender Rights Expression on Final Tour

Fans across the globe mourned the death of rock legend Tom Petty yesterday (Oct. 2) after the 66-year-old suffered cardiac arrest at his Malibu home.

The passing took many in the music world by surprise. Just last week, the Heartbreakers frontman was onstage wrapping up his 40th Anniversary tour with a three-show mini-residency at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl. While Petty had hailed the tour as his “last big one” in now-prescient comments, scant fans thought that meant more than an extended reside hiatus.

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Petty’s ultimate New York shows at Forest Hills Stadium were newsworthy in their own right. On July 27 — the same day that President Donald Trump tweeted his controversial intention to ban transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military — Petty drew accolades for including late transgender actress Alexis Arquette in a photo me