If so-called rockists ever decide to secede and form their own nation, Tom Petty is a shoo-in for the country's first presidential nominee. Petty's music advances the notion of rock and roll as ...

Thirty-seven years ago today, Tom Petty released a long-delayed solo album that features some of his supergroup bandmates.

The 80s proved to be a productive, turbulent, career-altering decade for Tom Petty. He released four studio LPs with the Heartbreakers and then punctuated the decade with his first solo album. Petty ...

When Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne wrote 'Free Fallin'', Petty experimented with chords and melodies that initially amused Lynne, before they landed on magic.