Musician/Songwriter Tom Petty turns 60 today. Been grinding out MEGA Hits for quite a long time. "Breakdown", "Refugee", "Running Down A Dream", "Free Fallin", "Here Comes My Girl", "American Girl","Last Dance With Mary Jane", "You Don't Know How It Feels" and the list is almost endless. A true American Rocker.Tom Petty gets the honorary "Room At The Top Of the World" Medal for his long career and just being a cool dude.
got 2 meet him this summer backstage at the SPAC....looks everybit of 60 and more...but he was/is kool as fuck....and him and the rest of the guys in the band were just down to earth guys...chatted a lil bit about horses and and even some upcoming college foots...knowing that a few of them are from gainesville..i knew tom bled the orange and blue....was pretty knowledgeable too....without a doubt those songs y'all mentioned are classics...but i would wager a guess that 'American Girl'..was his biggest hit....though i know the 'full moon fever record'(the one with 'free fallin')was prolly his biggest seller to date...
arty:There is a 2 DVD documentary entilted "Running Down A Dream" that is filled with concert footage and old videos. It goes into Tom Petty's childhood, teenage years, his early days in Rock and Roll, the 80's, up until the present. If you can find it, it is really worth a view for music fans. I found it in the DVD Section at my local library. One thing I found interesting in the documentary is how some years ago his house burned down and the authorities expected arson was the cause and it was not an accident. He lost many many valuable items as you might imagine and basically had to restart his pesonal life from scratch.
