Did Tom Petty Die?

Toefoot · Oct 2, 2017

I am hearing Tom Petty had a massive Cardiac arrest and now has died? Anyone?

Crownline · Oct 2, 2017

On radio now. Tmz claims he had no brain activity last night and decision was made to stop life support.

Toefoot · Oct 2, 2017

Bummer, I liked his music.

Max Rockatansky · Oct 2, 2017

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Bummer, I liked his music.
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True, but we're all on that path.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-found-unconscious-full-cardiac-arrest/
Tom Petty was rushed to the hospital Sunday night after he was found unconscious, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

EMTs rushed to his Malibu home and were able to get a pulse. He was rushed to the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and our sources say he was put on life support.

Petty's condition is unknown but was critical from the moment he was found.

Petty, who became famous with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1978 with "Breakdown," is 66.

We've been in touch with numerous people from Petty's camp and they are clearly upset but not talking.

JakeStarkey · Oct 2, 2017

RIP

waltky · Oct 2, 2017

Tom Petty Taken Off Life Support after suffering cardiac arrest...

Tom Petty Taken Off Life Support Following Hospitalization: Report
10/2/2017 - Tom Petty was put on life support Monday (Oct. 2) after suffering cardiac arrest. Conflicting reports followed that caused confusion, saying that he has died at the age of 66 -- these were later revealed to be erroneous. CBS News' breaking news tweet citing LAPD has since been deleted. The LAPD later tweeted out an apology: "The LAPD has no information about the passing of singer Tom Petty. Initial information was inadvertantly [sic] provided to some media sources. However, the LAPD has no investigative role in this matter. We apologize for any inconvenience in this reporting."

Earlier in the day, Petty was found in his Malibu home in full cardiac arrest, not breathing. Authorities told The Hollywood Reporter they did respond to a Malibu home around 10:52 a.m. for a man who suffered a heart attack, but they could not confirm it was Petty. Emergency responders were able to get a pulse back, but the man is in critical condition. He was then rushed to the hospital. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers just wrapped their 40th anniversary tour at the Hollywood Bowl last week.

Petty was born in Gainesville, FL, on Oct. 20, 1950. Despite his easy-going, affable persona, Petty endured a rough childhood, living in poverty with an alcoholic, abusive father and a mother who was in fear of her husband. But a childhood handshake with Elvis Presley in the '50s piqued his interest in rock n' roll, and at the age of 17, inspired by the Beatles and the Byrds, Petty dropped out of high school to play rock with his band, Mudcrutch. After that band broke up, Petty and several of its members formed Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, which catapulted him to the forefront of rock music for the next 40 years. (Mudcrutch reformed in 2007 and released two studio albums, 2008's self-titled and 2016's 2, his final studio effort.)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled album dropped in 1976, and although it would eventually go Gold and produce two classic rock radio staples with the singles "Breakdown" and "American Girl," the album (and those singles) weren't big hits upon initial release ("Breakdown" would later peak at No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 after being re-released). 1978's You're Gonna Get It! fared slightly better commercially, but it was the band's third album, 1979's Damn the Torpedoes!, that found Petty break through to massive success. That No. 2-peaking, triple Platinum album produced two top 20 hits with "Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That." While new wave and synth-pop took hold in the '80s, Petty stuck to his no-frills heartland rock style while still appealing to a young fan base. Platinum albums, massive tours and hit singles (including the No. 3-peaking duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Stevie Nicks) followed, and he began to branch out creatively from the Hearbreakers as the decade came to a close.

After joining George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne in the supergroup-to-end-all-supergroups Traveling Wilburys – whose 1988 debut hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 – Petty continued to work with Lynne on his solo debut, 1989's Full Moon Fever. It would prove to be his most blockbuster release since Damn the Torpedoes! a decade earlier, going five-times Platinum, hitting No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and producing arguably his best-known song, the inescapable "Free Fallin'," a No. 7 Hot 100 hit. Within the space of two years, Petty followed his runaway hit solo LP with another Traveling Wilburys album as well as a new Heartbreakers album. Barely slowing his pace throughout the next three decades, Petty continued releasing albums, whether with the Heartbreakers, solo or Mudcrutch. "We ain't no punk band, we ain't folk rock, jazz rock, or any of that bullshit. Just rock, and we don't put no other name on it than that. We'd be stupid if we did," he told Rolling Stone in the '70s of his style, which -- despite his knack for inventive songcraft -- would stay largely the same throughout his career.

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Rock legend Tom Petty pulled off life support after going into cardiac arrest
Monday, October 2, 2017: Tom Petty, the rocker who wrote and performed some of the greatest hits of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s as the front man for the Heartbreakers, was in the hospital Monday with a bleak prognosis after suffering a heart attack.

The “Free Fallin’” singer, 66, was found unconscious in his Malibu home Sunday night by his wife, Dana York. She called 911 and told dispatchers her husband wasn’t breathing, according to TMZ, which obtained audio of the the urgent plea. First responders rushed Petty to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he was put on life support. Doctors found no brain activity for Petty, according to multiple reports. The family had him taken off the machines and asked doctors to impose a do-not-resuscitate order, TMZ said. Petty was “clinging to life” Monday, and the family brought in a chaplain to administer last rites before the machines were turned off, the gossip site said.

CBS News at one point on Monday reported the Hall of Fame musician died Monday, citing a source within the Los Angeles Police Department. But that claim was quickly disputed by the LAPD, which said it was not investigating Petty’s medical crisis.

The celebrated singer-songwriter-guitarist from Florida has notched an impressive string of hits over his decades-long career, despite well-publicized bouts with drugs and depression. His singular talent garnered him 18 Grammy nominations and three wins. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Petty was on tour with the Heartbreakers all summer for the band’s 40th anniversary, and wrapped up the season with a concert last Monday at the Hollywood Bowl. He told Rolling Stone magazine that it was going to be his “last trip around the country,” although not necessarily the end of his musical career. “I need something to do, or I tend to be a nuisance around the house,” Petty told the magazine.

Born in Gainesville, Fla., Petty took refuge in music to escape an abusive father — a charming, charismatic man who turned violent when he was drunk, as Petty described him. He quit high school to join a Florida band called Mudcrutch. The group broke up not long after moving to Los Angeles, but that opened the door for Petty to form the Heartbreakers, as lead singer and guitarist. The band found fame in 1977 with the single “Breakdown,” which broke the Top 40 off their self-titled debut album. That album also included the song “American Girl.” Though the track never cracked the charts, it cemented itself as an American classic, ranked 76th on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.” The band’s profile continued to rise with 1979’s “Damn the Torpedoes,” and included popular singles “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Refugee.”

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ChrisL · Oct 3, 2017

First they said he was dead, then they said he wasn't dead. Now he is dead again. I am really getting sick and tired of the media and their incompetency because they are in such a hurry to scoop the other guys.

ChrisL · Oct 3, 2017

Well, RIP to Tom Petty who I believe really is dead now. A great loss to the music world.

Foolardi · Oct 3, 2017

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I am hearing Tom Petty had a massive Cardiac arrest and now has died? Anyone?
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Just yesterday I was seriously purviewing a Petty LP.
I have only one new Tom Petty LP { from Barnes & Nobel }
I ended up getting a Beck Hansen LP.His music is very well recorded
and sounds marvy.Plus is quite unique.
I remember a song on my new Petty LP.
- American Girl -. But it always reminds me of the horror flick
- Silence of the Lambs -.

waltky · Oct 3, 2017

Tom Petty passes away after suffering full cardiac arrest...

Rock Star Tom Petty Dies At 66
October 3, 2017 - Rock star Tom Petty has died, his manager Tony Dimitriades announced Monday. He was found in critical condition at his home in Malibu, Calif., Sunday night after suffering full cardiac arrest, as first reported by the website TMZ. Petty was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he died on Monday at 11:40 p.m. ET. Petty was a widely lauded songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was 66 years old.

Petty had just concluded his 40th anniversary tour with his band, The Heartbreakers, on Sept. 25 in Los Angeles. Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Fla.; as he told Terry Gross on WHYY's Fresh Air in 2006, he was from what he called the "redneck, hillbilly" part of town. "It's an interesting place," he remarked, "because you can meet almost any kind of person from many walks of life because of the university. But it's really surrounded by this kind of very rural kind of people that are — you know, they're farmers or, you know, tractor drivers or, you know, just all kinds of — game wardens, you name it, you know. So it's an interesting blend. My family wasn't involved in the college, you know. They were more of just your white trash kind of ... family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were — you know, passing through."

After being part of an early band called Mudcrutch, he first came to fame with his own band. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded its eponymous debut in 1976, an album that included two songs that became core songs in the rock 'n' roll canon: "Breakdown" and "American Girl." The band released two more albums in quick succession: 1978's You're Gonna Get It! which went gold, and 1979's Damn The Torpedoes, which included the group's first Top 10 single, "Don't Do Me Like That," and "Refugee." The title of that 1979 album was an indication of its difficult birth: When Petty's former record label, Shelter, was sold to MCA, Petty was infuriated and declared that he rejected being "bought and sold like a piece of meat." Petty took on the costs of recording Damn The Torpedoes himself — to the point of declaring bankruptcy. After the legal case was settled, Petty and his band released the album on a specially created imprint called Backstreet Records, and the album went to No. 2 on the charts.

Tom Petty, seen here during a United Kingdom performance, died Monday at the age of 66.

After a string of further albums with the Heartbreakers, Petty teamed up with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison to record as The Traveling Wilburys; the supergroup's first album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, was released in 1988 and resulted in Petty's first Grammy Award. (Petty earned his first solo Grammy in 1995 for the song "You Don't Know How It Feels"; he won best long form video in 2008 for Peter Bogdanovich's documentary Runnin' Down A Dream.) After Orbison's death in December 1988, the remaining members of The Traveling Wilburys recorded one more album together: the intentionally misleadingly named Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, which was released in 1990.

In 1989, Petty released his first solo title, Full Moon Fever, which went to No. 3 and included one of his most instantly recognizable singles: "Free Fallin'." As Petty told Billboard last year, "Free Fallin'" came fast. "Jeff Lynne and I were sitting around with the idea of writing a song," he recounted, "and I was playing the keyboard and I just happened to hit on that main riff, the intro of the song, and I think Jeff said something like, 'That's a really good riff but there's one chord too many,' so I think I cut it back a chord and then, really just to amuse Jeff, honestly, I just sang that first verse. Then he starts laughing. Honestly, I thought I was just amusing Jeff but then I got to the chorus of the song and he leaned over to me and said the word, 'freefalling.' And I went to sing that and he said, 'No, take your voice up and see how that feels.' So I took my voice up an octave or two, but I couldn't get the whole word in. So I sang 'freeee,' then 'free falling.' And we both knew at that moment that I'd hit on something pretty good. It was that fast." The next day, they recorded the song.

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ArmySoldier · Oct 3, 2017

A truly great musician. He will be deeply missed.

Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.

waltky · Oct 3, 2017

All the Boomer generation rockers are dyin' off...

Legendary Rocker Tom Petty Dies at 66
October 03, 2017 - U.S. rock legend Tom Petty has died after cardiac arrest at his Malibu, California, home. He was 66.

Petty's family said he was taken to the hospital early Monday, but he could not be revived. They said he died Monday evening "surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends." Petty was born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1950, and he credits his musical awakening to a chance meeting with Elvis Presley in 1961. The "King of Rock and Roll" was working on a movie nearby and after the two were introduced, a young Petty told his family he was going to be a rock star.

Anti-rock star

But Tom Petty never really saw himself as a rock star, not in the way rock stars are thought of. As a frontman, Petty was no David Lee Roth, or Axl Rose, or Mick Jagger. There was never that larger-than-life swagger and attitude to boot. At times Petty's voice sometimes seemed strained, and quavering, like it was difficult for him to get the notes out. But that didn't matter because Petty was able, with a little help from his friends, to stand behind his music. On the cover of his third album, "Damn the Torpedoes," Petty is standing behind his signature red Rickenbacker, on his second, "You're Gonna Get It," he's barely visible, shadowed in blue light surrounded by the Heartbreakers, the extraordinary musicians who made up his band. Tom Petty was never just Tom Petty, not without Mike Campbell on lead guitar, Benmont Tench on keyboards, Ron Blair on bass, and Stan Lynch on drums, the four who made up the original Heartbreakers. The lineup has changed a bit, but Tench and Campbell remained Petty's constant musical companions.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performs at The Hangout Festival on May 18, 2013.

It's hard to get a feel for the American iconic songwriter on his first album, eponymously titled Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty was 26, but on this album, he and his crew are playing around with the band they would become. There are some straight blues numbers ("Hometown Blues" and "Anything That's Rock and Roll"). There's some rhythm and blues and alt-country in there as well. But way down there at the bottom of the record is the song that forecasts the iconic songwriter that Petty was becoming: "American Girl" is the last track on the album about "... an American girl, raised on promises." This is a song of longing, and heartbreak and hope, which is at once evocative, and indicative of where this band was heading. On his third album "Damn the Torpedoes," Petty cements his role as the anti-front man. His songs are about girls, but from the perspective of a a down-on-his-luck guy. The songs show that he needs and adores the women in his life, but is generally terrified and a bit resigned to the pain they will cause him.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers seen at KAABOO 2017 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, Sept. 17, 2017, in San Diego, California.

"Don't Do Me Like That," for instance, "Even the Losers," and the flawless "Here Comes My Girl," where Petty tells us the tale of the woman "standing right by my side." It's a nearly perfect song — the jangly guitars, the anxious verses, and the soaring triumphant chorus — the sound of a songwriter hitting his stride. All told, the Heartbreakers released 13 different albums, Petty released three solo albums, played with the supergroup The Traveling Wilbury's, and he also reunited with his first band Mudcrutch for some tour dates around the U.S. And somewhere along the way he flew into the stratosphere of American songwriters inhabited by people like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King and Stevie Nicks, American musicians who captured day-to-day life, rather than rock and roll excess. On his last studio release, Petty channels the anger of a generation left behind in "American Dream Plan B." "Well, my mama so sad, Daddy’s just mad," he sings, "Cause I ain't gonna have the chance he had..." managing to capture the frustration of the American dream deferred in 17 simple words.

Petty wrapped his most recent tour last week at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. In December, Petty told Rolling Stone magazine that he thought this would be the group's last tour together. He said, "It's very likely we'll keep playing, but will we take on 50 shows in one tour? I don't think so. I'd be lying if I didn't say I was thinking this might be the last big one." Petty leaves behind his wife, Dana York Epperson, a stepson, Dylan, and two daughters, Adria and AnnaKim, from a previous marriage. "It’s shocking, crushing news," Petty's friend and Traveling Wilburys bandmate Bob Dylan told Rolling Stone magazine in a statement. "I thought the world of Tom. He was great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him."

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cerberus · Oct 4, 2017

It's odd that I like country and western but have never even heard of this guy. In a short clip on tv news last night he didn't seem to be outstanding or distinctive. Subjective, I suppose.

JakeStarkey · Oct 4, 2017

For two generations Tom Petty was a a major influence. For those born after 1995, whose music unfortunately belongs to their grandparents, not so much.

cerberus · Oct 4, 2017

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For two generations Tom Petty was a a major influence. For those born after 1995, whose music unfortunately belongs to their grandparents, not so much.
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Well I've been around during the last two generations but I still haven't heard of him.

JakeStarkey · Oct 4, 2017

cerberus said: ↑

Well I've been around during the last two generations but I still haven't heard of him.
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That's on you, not on Tom. Check his music. You will know some of it, I am quite sure.

JakeStarkey · Oct 4, 2017

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers signing autographs at Tower Records in Los Angeles, 1976

perdidochas · Oct 4, 2017

cerberus said: ↑

It's odd that I like country and western but have never even heard of this guy. In a short clip on tv news last night he didn't seem to be outstanding or distinctive. Subjective, I suppose.
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He wasn't country and western. Southern twinged rock would be the best description of his work.

perdidochas · Oct 4, 2017

cerberus said: ↑

Well I've been around during the last two generations but I still haven't heard of him.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty

Zac Brown on his Facebook feed said that they often listened to Tom Petty on streaming playlists, and were always surprised when they heard a song that they had forgotten about. He had hits from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

ArmySoldier · Oct 4, 2017

cerberus said: ↑

It's odd that I like country and western but have never even heard of this guy. In a short clip on tv news last night he didn't seem to be outstanding or distinctive. Subjective, I suppose.
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He's not country or western. He's complicated in terms of genre, but a mix of rock, classic rock, southern rock, and a hint of blues.

HereWeGoAgain · Oct 4, 2017

cerberus said: ↑

Well I've been around during the last two generations but I still haven't heard of him.
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He was just like Bing Crosby. A real crooner.

cerberus · Oct 4, 2017

JakeStarkey said: ↑

That's on you, not on Tom. Check his music. You will know some of it, I am quite sure.
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I'm not blaming Tom for my not having heard his name before, I'm just saying how odd it is that I haven't when I'm familiar with all the other mainstream C&W singers?

cerberus · Oct 4, 2017

perdidochas said: ↑

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty

Zac Brown on his Facebook feed said that they often listened to Tom Petty on streaming playlists, and were always surprised when they heard a song that they had forgotten about. He had hits from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
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'Facebook'? What's that??

HereWeGoAgain · Oct 4, 2017

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I'm not blaming Tom for my not having heard his name before, I'm just saying how odd it is that I haven't when I'm familiar with all the other mainstream C&W singers?
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He wasn't C&W. He was more talented than that.

cerberus · Oct 5, 2017

HereWeGoAgain said: ↑

He wasn't C&W. He was more talented than that.
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He looked and sounded like any other singer who walked in off the street to me. But like I said - subjective, I suppose. 'One man's meat . . . ', and all that!

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