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Petty was born on Oct. 20, 1950 in Florida. He had a rough childhood and did not do well in school, according to the New York Times. He caught the rock‘n‘roll bug after he was introduced by his uncle to Elvis Presley, who was shooting the picture “Follow That Dream” on location in Florida in 1960.
October 3, 2017 / 2:28 AM / Updated 2 hours ago
Tom Petty, 'distinctively American' rocker, dies aged 66
LOS
ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. rocker Tom Petty, whose vibrant guitar
riffs, distinctly raw, nasal vocals and slick song lyrics graced such
hits as “Refugee,” “Free Fallin’” and “American Girl,” has died
following a heart attack. He was 66.
Petty
suffered cardiac arrest and was found unconscious at his home in Malibu
early on Monday morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could
not be revived, his long-time manager Tony Dimitriades said in a
statement.
“We are devastated to announce the
untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend Tom
Petty,” Dimitriades said on behalf of the family.
He died peacefully at 8:40 p.m. local time (0340 GMT Tuesday) surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends.
Bob Dylan called his death “shocking, crushing news” in a statement to Rolling Stone magazine.
Petty,
best known for his roots-infused rock music, carved a career as a solo
artist as well as with his band The Heartbreakers and as part of
supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
Petty and
The Heartbreakers embarked on a 40th anniversary tour of the United
States this year and last played three dates in late September at the
Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The band was scheduled to perform two
dates in New York in November.
Petty formed
The Heartbreakers in the mid 1970s, but it wasn’t until the band’s third
album “Damn the Torpedoes” in 1979 that their music really took off,
with hits such as “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That.”
He
and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002,
when they were described by organizers as “the quintessential American
individualists”, capturing the voice of the American everyman.
“Music,
as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I
know,” Petty once said during an interview with CNN. “There is
something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your
heart.”
Petty also co-founded the 1980s
supergroup The Traveling Wilburys with Dylan, Roy Orbison, George
Harrison and Jeff Lynne, penning hits such as “End of the Line” and
“She’s My Baby.”
FILE
PHOTO: Musician Tom Petty speaks to guests after being inducted during
the 47th Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction ceremony in New York, U.S.
on June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
Dylan said in his statement that Petty was “a great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.”
Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr wrote on Twitter: “God bless Tom Petty peace and love to his family I‘m sure going to miss you Tom.”
Petty
was born on Oct. 20, 1950 in Florida. He had a rough childhood and did
not do well in school, according to the New York Times. He caught the
rock‘n‘roll bug after he was introduced by his uncle to Elvis Presley,
who was shooting the picture “Follow That Dream” on location in Florida
in 1960.
He got his first guitar in 1962 and
was influenced by the Beatles, growing his hair long and switching to
electric guitar. In the mid-1960s, he joined his first band, the
Sundowners.
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Petty dropped out of high school when he was 17 and joined Mudcrutch, a band with which he moved to Los Angeles in 1970.
The
band broke up and Petty drifted from band to band before joining back
up with his bandmates from Mudcrutch in 1975. The group became Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers in 1976, according to Allmusic.com.
The
band, which recorded 16 albums, culled “the best parts of the British
Invasion, American garage rock, and Dylanesque singer/songwriters to
create a distinctively American hybrid that recalled the past without
being indebted to it,” the site said.
Amid his successes, Petty also suffered dark periods during a career spanning five decades.
A 2015 biography of the singer, “Petty: The Biography,” revealed for the first time the rocker’s heroin addiction in the 1990s.
Author
Warren Zanes said in an interview with The Washington Post that Petty
had succumbed to the drug because he “had had encounters with people who
did heroin, and he hit a point in his life when he did not know what to
do with the pain he was feeling”.
Petty also
suffered from depression, channeling his pain into 1999’s “Echo,” during
which he was also dealing with a divorce. In 2002, he married Dana York
and told Reuters that he had been in therapy for six years to deal with
depression.
“It’s a funny disease because it takes you a long
time to really come to terms with the fact that you’re sick - medically
sick, you’re not just suddenly going out of your mind,” he said at the
time.
Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Piya Sinha-Roy, Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt
Music mogul Clive Davis tells of heartbreak over Whitney Houston death
Reuters Staff
2 Min Read
FILE
PHOTO: Singer Whitney Houston waves at the crowd next to Clive Davis at
the conclusion of her performance at the 2009 Grammy Salute to Industry
Icons event. Picture taken February 7, 2009. REUTERS/Mario
Anzuoni/File Photo
LONDON(Reuters)
- For music mogul Clive Davis, one memory stands out from a six-decade
career - the sudden death of long-time collaborator Whitney Houston.
The
Grammy-winning record producer and executive - and subject of a new
documentary “Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives” - met the future
star singer when she was an untested teenager.
“Whitney and I
formed this creative collaboration, right from the beginning when she
was 19 years old, and chose together every song that she ever recorded,”
Davis said.
Houston won six of her own Grammys in a
25-year career that was marred by drug and alcohol problems and a
turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown. She died in 2012 aged 48,
after drowning in a hotel bathtub.
“Her death was so startling
and unexpected – there is that analogy when someone dear to you, and it
brought back the loss of my parents - how you can be affected by this
tragedy,” he told Reuters.
FILE
PHOTO: Producer Clive Davis poses backstage at the 46th NAACP Image
Awards in Pasadena, California February 6, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan
Alcorn/File Photo
“The film does make clear
that I might have been a little bit more vigilant earlier. But once I
became aware of the seriousness of Whitney’s addiction, I acted,” he
added.
The documentary ranges further over his career, with
interviews with other artists he worked with from Aretha Franklin and
Alicia Keys to Sean “Puffy” Combs, Patti Smith and Paul Simon.
He
was there in the early days of rap, financing the LaFace and Bad Boy
labels which launched the careers of some of the first artists to attain
mainstream success, such as Notorious B.I.G. and Combs.
Davis
said Combs convinced him that they could convince mainstream audiences
to embrace hip-hop. “He was very articulate in expressing that vision
and I bought into it,” Davis said.
“Clive Davis: The Soundtrack To Our Lives,” is released on Oct. 3 via the Apple Music streaming service.
Reporting by Jayson Mansray; Writing by Mark Hanrahan; Editing by Andrew Heavens
U.S. rocker Tom Petty reported 'clinging to life' -TMZ.com
Reuters Staff
1 Min Read
LOS
ANGELES, Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. rocker Tom Petty was reported on Monday
to be clinging to life in a southern California hospital after
conflicting reports that he had died.
CBS News had earlier
reported that Petty, 66, had died after life support was switched off
following cardiac arrest on Sunday. TMZ later reported, citing
unidentified sources, that Petty was not expected to live much longer
but was “still clinging to life.”
Representatives for the singer did not return calls for comment or confirmation on Petty’s condition.
Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Piya Sinha-Roy; editing by
Diane Craft
Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That.” He and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, when they were described by organizers as “the quintessential American individualists”, capturing the voice of the American everyman. “Music, as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I know,” Petty once said during an interview with CNN. “There is something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart.
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Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That.”
He and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, when they were described by organizers as “the quintessential American individualists”, capturing the voice of the American everyman.
“Music, as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I know,” Petty once said during an interview with CNN. “There is something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart.
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