Music Deaths: Tom Petty

TOM PETTY, 66  Died October 2, 2017

From Gainesville, Florida.  Had 23 Top 100 songs and  15 Top 40s and 3 Top Tens between 1978 and 1994.  His last big hit was 1994's "Mary Jane's Last Dance," one of my all-time favorite songs.

He formed the band Epics which became Mudcrutch and three members of that group formed the core of his band, the Heartbreakers.

In 1977, he charted with "Breakdown" which went to #40.

Then came hits "Don't Do me Like That" (#10-1980, "Refugee  (#15-1981),  "The Waiting"  (#19--1981) and then a duet with Stevie Nicks  "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"  (#3-1981).

Later, he was in the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne of ELO.

A Great One.