It was magical, it was spiritual, Campbell affirms. In addition to academic papers on rock, he wrote the 33 and 1/3 book on Dusty Springfields album Dusty in Memphis. Around 2000, he stopped listening to new musicexcept for Tom Petty. It's hard to even imagine that album without Stan. "We all kind of thought Howie would get the job," says original Heartbreakers' drummer Stan Lynch. undefined. And heres the thing: He didnt have an ego. Tom got up and made a little speech, the guitarist says, like, This has been the best tour. I started to hear a whole new kind of thing coming out., Petty was flattered when Hillman asked if he could record his own version of Wildflowers title track for Bidin My Time. What could be cooler in the entire world than for your target demographic to be Tom Petty?, Petty characterized his roots and ambition this way, in the title song of his 1985 album, Southern Accents: I got my own way of talkin/But everything gets done, with a Southern accent. He was born Thomas Earl Petty on October 20th, 1950, in Gainesville, Florida; a brother, Bruce, arrived in 1958. At the time that The Heartbreakers went full steam until the late 80s, Petty created a solo record because he needed a change of pace. They preferred the punkier numbers, like Even the Losers and Refugee, to the Byrds-ier T.P. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Tim McGraw recorded "Back When", a song Lynch wrote with Stephony Smith and Jeff Stevens, for his album Live Like You Were Dying. And so I have regrets, but they dont hold me back. The drummer looked back and opened up about his time with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers during a recent appearance. Im not really there emotionally, he says. This summer, Wolf and his solo group did the honors for Petty. At the end of the process, as was their agreement, Zanes sent Petty the book, and then flew out to California to hear his judgment in person. It has a special vibe when its just the two of you. And so we started closing the show with it. And every night, they got multiple encores., With Damn the Torpedoes, Petty and the Heartbreakers became that rare phenomenon in rock: a critically acclaimed band that packed arenas, sold albums in platinum numbers including the 1985 experimental concept, Southern Accents and made challenging singles that were popular on Top 40 radio, FM rock stations and MTV (the eerie menace of You Got Lucky; the electro-psychedelic haze of Dont Come Around Here No More). The Real Reason Behind Tom Petty Firing Stan Lynch Not only did this prickly anthem propel the band into the US Billboard chart and help make them a household name . I had to remind myself that I was full-grown man. The eleven-year-old who first heard Breakdown was always close.