Albums by Tom Petty
ALBUMHighway CompanionTom Petty
ALBUMFinding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)Tom Petty
ALBUMWildflowersTom Petty
ALBUMFull Moon FeverTom Petty
ALBUMHard PromisesTom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty's Popular Music Videos
Don't Come Around Here No More
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Free Fallin'
Tom Petty
Learning to Fly (Live from Bonnaroo)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Mary Jane's Last Dance (Live from Gainsville)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
It's Good to Be King (Live from Gainsville)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
You Don't Know How It Feels
Tom Petty
I Won't Back Down
Tom Petty
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Runnin' Down a Dream
Tom Petty
Into the Great Wide Open
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Artist Playlists
Tom Petty Essentials
Guitar-driven anthems about big horizons and youthful rebellion.
Tom Petty Video Essentials
The placid everyman of rock cut loose in his videos.
Inspired by Tom Petty
Homages to the uncompromising rocker.
Tom Petty: Influences
Hear the sounds that tumbled together to inspire an American rock legend.
Tom Petty: Deep Cuts
His vision of rock 'n' roll was as big as America itself.
Tom Petty: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Tom Petty: Live
The heartland-rock hero takes it to the people.
Tom Petty: The Songwriters
The heartland-rock hero's tunes are endlessly adaptable.
Tom Petty: Sing
Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Artist Biography
When Tom Petty first appeared in 1976, he was an artist out of time and out of place—an outsider in a black leather jacket, a Rickenbacker-armed rock ’n’ roll traditionalist at a moment when that somehow felt radical. If that’s hard to believe, it’s because Petty spent the next several decades writing songs that last. In reimagining the sounds of his youth—The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Muddy Waters—he preserved them. And whether he was penning pop hits for Stevie Nicks or exploring roots rock with Mudcrutch, crafting surrealist music videos on his own or teaming up with some of his heroes in The Traveling Wilburys, he was forever unassuming—someone who naturally gave voice to fellow stragglers, strugglers, and underdogs. He actually captured it best on 1979’s Damn The Torpedoes, the album that catapulted him to where he belonged, with a now iconic line that, fittingly, is as triumphant at is self-deprecating: “Baby, even the losers, get lucky sometimes.”
Hometown
Gainesville, FL, United States
Genre
Rock