![]() neighborhood because it’s where he constantly traveled to meet with lawyers during a period of bitter legal wrangling with his record label. “Century City,” from his first Top 10 album, 1979’s “Damn The Torpedos” was partly inspired by that L.A. In addition to his wife, Petty is survived by stepson Dylan from her first marriage, his daughters Adria and AnnaKim from his first marriage, and a granddaughter.Īnd though he lived in many parts of Los Angeles, his love for his adopted city and state was even better known thanks to the inspirations its people and places gave him as a songwriter, and the frequency with which he name-dropped local landmarks in his lyrics. His roots here were certainly literal at times, the places Petty lived ranging from what he described as “hooker motels” in Hollywood when the band was broke and struggling, to the big house in Encino that chart success bought, then a self-described “chicken shack” after his first marriage ended in divorce amid his heroin addiction, and finally the mansion in Malibu where he settled with his second wife Dana. “But the truth is every bit of music we’ve ever made was in L.A.” Petty continued. band.’ We’re always referred to as a Southern band. And we always have, though we’re still never referred to as an ‘L.A. And we kind of felt we belonged here (in L.A.). “We loved the Byrds and we loved the Beach Boys, and Buffalo Springfield and the (Flying) Burrito Brothers. “We could kind of picture ourselves in L.A.” Petty said in “Conversations with Tom Petty,” a 2005 collection of interviews by Paul Zollo. It was with Mudcrutch that he and the rest of the band sold all their belongings, packed everyone into a van, and drove to Los Angeles in search of a record deal, eventually landing at Shelter Records. 20, 1950 in Gainesville, Florida, and and after playing in a handful of local bands as teenager found his first measure of success there in the early ’70s with Mudcrutch, a band that also included future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. 17, part of what he’d suggested might be his last big tour, though he’d said he would still play shows occasionally but desired to spend more time at home with his family and friends. He and the band had also headlined the Arroyo Seco Weekend in Pasadena on June 24 and Kaaboo Del Mar festival on Sept. 25, which now stands as his farewell appearance. Petty and the Heartbreakers just wrapped up a 40th anniversary tour with three sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl, the last of them on Monday, Sept. Earlier in the day, CBS had reported the musician’s death, but then had to retract the story. Petty’s death was reported by the Associated Press, citing the singer’s spokesman, shortly after 9 p.m. 2, apparently after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu on Sunday night. Singer and guitarist Tom Petty, whose work with his band the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist tapped a pure vein of American rock and roll for more than four decades, died Monday, Oct.
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