TOM PETTY Who Would Have Celebrated His 75th Birthday Today About Music
20 October 2025
Tom Petty was born in Gainesville, Florida 75 years ago today.
The rock legend passed away in 2017, aged 66.
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The Late Great TOM PETTY About Integrity
2 October 2024 – Rock Icon TOM PETTY Passed Away 7 Years Ago Today
2 October 2024
Seven years ago today, on 2 October 2017, the fab Americana singer-songwriter
and rocker at heart from Florida TOM PETTY passed away following an accidental
drug overdose.
He was only 66. With his band The Heartbreakers he made 13 studio LPs. Solo
he canned 3 longplayers and he released two albums with supergroup Traveling Wilburys (Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Petty).
To remember the legend TUTV picked these 3 great songs.
– ANYTHING THAT’S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL –
Debut single 1977
– DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE –
1985
– I WON’T BACK DOWN –
1989
Country/Blues Rock Veteran STEVE EARL Covers TOM PETTY’s ‘YER SO BAD’
Daily noise that works faster than caffeine
11 May 2024
A TOM PETTY tribute album PETTY COUNTRY: A COUNTRY MUSIC CELEBRATION
will be released on June 21. More info here.
It’ll feature 20 covers by a star-studded cast of Americana artists such as George Strait, Steve Earle, Willie and Lukas Nelson, Marty Stuart, Luke Combs, Wynonna Judd, and Carly Pearce.
We already enjoyed Dolly Parton‘s take on Petty‘s 1984 romantic ballad Southern Accents, emotive songsmith Chris Stapleton with a badass rendition of I Should
Have Know It from his 2010 album Mojo and now it’s STEVE EARLE‘s turn with
a high-spirited version of YER SO BAD from Petty‘s 1989 Full Moon Fever LP.
STEVE EARLE
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CHRIS STAPLETON Covers TOM PETTY’s Badass Cracker ‘I SHOULD HAVE KNOW IT’ With His Own Badass Version
27 April 2024
A TOM PETTY tribute album PETTY COUNTRY: A COUNTRY MUSIC CELEBRATION
will be released on June 21. More info here .
It’ll feature 20 covers by a star-studded cast of country artists such as George Strait, Steve Earle, Willie and Lukas Nelson, Marty Stuart, Luke Combs, Wynonna Judd, and Carly Pearce.
We already enjoyed Dolly Parton‘s take on Petty‘s
1984 romantic ballad Southern Accents.
And here comes emotive singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton with a badass blues-rock rendition of the late legend’s badass ripper I Should Have Know It from his 2010 album Mojo.
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It’s Already Five Years This Day Since Legend TOM PETTY Passed Away
2 October 2022
Five years ago today, on 2 October 2017, the pure all-around Americana (from Gamesville, Florida) rocker at heart TOM PETTY passed away following an accidental drug overdose.
He was only 66. With his band The Heartbreakers he made 13 studio LPs, solo
he canned 3 longplayers and he released two albums with supergroup Traveling Wilburys (Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Petty).
To remember the legend Turn Up The Volume picked 3 great Tom Petty moments.
– ANYTHING THAT’S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL –
Debut single 1977
– DON’T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE –
1985
– I WON’T BACK DOWN –
1989
TOM PETTY: Bio – Discography – Website
New live album – At The Filmore 1997– out on 25 November
Listen To Previously Unreleased Sweet TOM PETTY Track ‘THERE GOES ANGELA (DREAM AWAY)’
New sonic impulses…
5 August 2020
An expanded edition of the late great TOM PETTY‘s debut album WILDFLOWERS
will see the day of light in the near future. It was Petty himself who talked, shortly
before his death about a special reissue as he recorded several songs that didn’t
make it onto the LP.
Petty‘s estate already shared a demo version of the LP’s magnificent single ‘You
Don’t Know How It Feels‘ last June. And just now a previously unheard track arrived,
the sweet love ballad ‘THERE GOES ANGELA (DREAM AWAY)’.
Enjoy here…
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In case you missed it, here’s the demo version of You Don’t Know How It Feels…
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Golden Voices – ANGEL OLSEN And MEG DUFFY With TOM PETTY Cover
18 July 2020
The wonderful ANGEL OLSEN shared the second edition of her Cosmic Stream show
series, filmed at the Masonic Temple in Asheville. With Hand Habits’s MEG DUFFY she covered WALLS, a mesmeric song by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’. A track
from their 1996 album that became the soundtrack of the movie She’s The One
The golden voices of Olsen and Duffy send shivers down your spin. Emotion-charged, impassioned and moving. You’ll go silent and press repeat a couple of times.
Breathtaking!
Listen here…
‘You Don’t Know How It Feels’ By TOM PETTY – Here’s The Previously Unreleased Stripped Down Version
Top singles from the past…
5 July 2020
Artist: Tom Petty – R.I.P.
20 October 1950 – 2 October 2017
Single: You Don’t Know How It Feels
B-side: Girl On LSD
Released: 3 December 1994
Score: No 1 in the US
Album: Wildfowers
Here’s the gripping, previously stripped-down demo…
Original version…
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R.I.P