Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

In the 1970s Tom Petty came up with a distillate of FM radio Sixties rock, chiming Byrds guitars, Rolling Stones rhythms, and a slurred version of Bob Dylan/Roger McGuinn vocals. First penning tales of outcasts and long-suffering lovers, he broadened his thematic range to encompass musings on his Southern heritage and to propagate a very American individualism. The Heartbreakers evolved into a cla...