Their eponymous debut album gained minute popularity amongst American audiences, achieving greater success in Britain. Eventually, Petty and Campbell collaborated with Tench, Ron Blair and Stan Lynch, forming the first lineup of the Heartbreakers. Tench decided to form his own group, whose sound Petty appreciated. The band is best known for the hit singles “American Girl”, “Breakdown”, “The Waiting”, “Learning to Fly”, “Refugee” and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”.Īfter Mudcrutch split up, Petty reluctantly agreed to pursue a solo career. In 1994, Steve Ferrone replaced Lynch on drums. Blair returned to the Heartbreakers in 2002, the year before Epstein’s death.
In 1991, Scott Thurston joined the band as a multi-instrumentalist-mostly on rhythm guitar and second keyboards. His replacement, Howie Epstein, stayed with the band for the next two decades. In 1981, Blair, weary of the touring lifestyle, departed the band. The band largely maintained this lineup, with a few exceptions. Formed in 1976, the band originally comprised Tom Petty (lead singer, guitar), Mike Campbell (lead guitarist), Ron Blair (bass guitar), Stan Lynch (drums), and Benmont Tench (keyboards). Were an American rock band from Gainesville, Florida. Most of the original Mudcrutch lineup reformed in 2007 to record their first album as a group. The following year, former Mudcrutch members Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench formed the core of a new band, the Heartbreakers. Though they signed a contract with Shelter Records, they released only one poor-selling single before breaking up in 1975. The band moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to attract the attention of a record company. Mudcrutch formed in Gainesville in 1970 and soon became a popular act across Florida. They are best known for being the band that began Tom Petty’s rise to fame. Mudcrutch was an American southern and country rock band from Gainesville, Florida. Their only single, “Depot Street”, released in 1975 by Shelter Records, failed to chart. The band included future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench and was popular in Gainesville, but their recordings went unnoticed by a mainstream audience. Shortly after embracing his musical aspirations, Petty started a band known as the Epics, later to evolve into Mudcrutch. Petty was close to his mother and remained close to his brother, Bruce.ġ976–1987: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Petty also overcame a difficult relationship with his father, who found it hard to accept that his son was “a mild-mannered kid who was interested in the arts” and subjected him to verbal and physical abuse on a regular basis. An Ogeechee lime tree that he allegedly planted while employed at the university is now called the Tom Petty tree. As a young man, Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew of the University of Florida, but never attended as a student. One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who later joined the Eagles. It wasn’t long before there were groups springing up in garages all over the place.” He dropped out of high school at age 17 to play bass with his newly formed band. But I really saw in the Beatles that here’s something I could do. I had never been hugely into sports. … I had been a big fan of Elvis. You get your friends and you’re a self-contained unit. “The minute I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show-and it’s true of thousands of guys-there was the way out.
Of that meeting with Presley, Petty said, “Elvis glowed.” In a 2006 interview, Petty said he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. He instantly became a Presley fan, and when he returned that Saturday, he was greeted by his friend Keith Harben, and soon traded his Wham-O slingshot for a collection of Elvis 45s. In the summer of 1961, his uncle was working on the set of Presley’s film Follow That Dream, in nearby Ocala, and invited Petty to watch the shoot. He had a brother, Bruce, who was seven years younger His interest in rock and roll music began at age ten when he met Elvis Presley. Petty was born October 20, 1950, in Gainesville, Florida, the first of two sons of Kitty (Katherine Petty), a local tax office worker, and Earl Petty, who worked in a grocery store. He and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and performed what would be their last concert a week before Petty’s death in 2017. In his career, he sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Petty recorded several hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. He was also a co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. Tom Petty was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor.
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