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How Stevie Nicks’ Obsession With Tom Petty Turned Into a 40-Year Friendship
While the four decades-long friendship between Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks grew into one of mutual love and respect for one another, it started as a one-way obsession. Nicks had just joined Fleetwood Mac when she started hearing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ music on the radio and became infatuated.
“I just fell in love with his song and his band,” Nicks said in Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes. “I would laughingly state to anyone that if I ever got to know Tom Petty and could worm my way into his good graces, if he were ever to ask me to leave Fleetwood Mac and join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, I’d probably do it — and that was before I even met him!”
Soon enough, they did meet in 1978 — sparking an electric friendship that endured the highs and lows of each of their careers. “She came into my life like a rocket, just refusing to go away,” Petty, who died of an accidental overdose in 2017, said his biography.
And even at their final act together — a surprise appearance by Nicks during Petty’s set at London’s BST festival in Hyde Park in July 2017 where they performed their 1
Swinging Modern Sounds #89: In Praise of Tom Petty
Since Tom Petty’s death, one year ago today, I have been haunted by the nuances and complexities of his songs, the sense of how they refine with attention, and have improved markedly in the period of reckoning that has come to pass since his untimely death.
Because Petty was so prolific and so trendy , the intense craftsmanship of his body of work has been hiding in plain sight. The more I consideration about this, the more I wanted to write about it. I decided to convene some people whom I knew to be up to the task of reassessing Petty’s music, and who might be well equipped to articulate some of what is long-lasting and important about the range of his considerable accomplishments.
We spoke by email most of the second half of 2017, even as news having to do with Petty’s death was existence unveiled around us. This gigantic thread (cut down significantly here), therefore, has the marks of grief and astonishment happening in concrete time, and sometimes opinions and impressions have changed, as you will observe below, as the facts changed. It was a genuine delight, however, to be able to bring enthusiasms and confusion about our hagiographies to thi
He was a heartbreaker: Tom Petty's relationships included 'fiery' chemistry with Stevie Nicks and a tortured first marriage - before he married the groupie he credited with saving him from addiction
Tom Petty, who died on Monday night at age 66, has left behind a legacy for friends and lovers, including his 'fiery, intense' chemistry with Stevie Nicks, a tortured first marriage, and the second wife he credited with saving his life.
Petty, a Southern hillbilly from Gainesville, Florida, escaped his dysfunctional house life with a father who was a drunk and 'beat the living s**t' out of him, according to author Warren Zanes in Petty, The Biography.
As a young teen, Petty liked art, clothes and wearing his hair long after the Beatles arrived on the music scene.
His parents thought he was gay, but it wasn't so - Petty had an eye for the ladies.
If a girl in junior high school didn't demonstrate him the same attraction he felt for her, he was traumatized and felt paralyzed.
Fiery friendship: 'She came into my life fancy a rocket, just refusing to go away,' Petty says of pal Stevie Nicks. The two spent time together on tour, in addition to smoking pot and doing cocaine together
Rolling Stone #276: Tom Petty
Tom Petty’s Gonna Get It – His Way
Two rent-a-cars carrying Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers roll toward Vancouver International Airport for an early-morning flight back to Los Angeles, where the band will get a two-day crack from touring before heading to England for more shows. Suddenly, one of the cars pulls up alongside the other. Wildly motioning to roll down the window, drummer Stan Lynch shouts: “We’re on! Right around 102.”
This is tantamount to red alert. Hands dart to the radio dial, and these weary rocker reach alive with schoolboy notes of their new single, “Listen to Her Heart,” on AM radio, the Heartbreakers – Petty, Lynch, guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench and bassist Ron Blair – give themselves a whooping cheer and continue on to the airport.
Once on board the plane, the band members happily fall down for the two-hour flight. All except for Petty, who orders coffee and in an uncommonly talkative mood, reflects on the past two years. “Everything’s banking on that one song [“Listen to Her Heart”] right now,” he says in a slow dra