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Tom Petty
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American musician
Tom Petty was an American musician who became one of rock music's most influential and commercially successful artists. He matters because his distinctive songwriting and performances helped shape the sound of rock music from the 1970s onward, and his work remains widely recognized and celebrated today.
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Gainesville, Florida, USA
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist. Over the course of his career, Petty sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him…
Known for
- Fame and Fentanyl — Self (archive footage)2025
- Heartbreakers Beach Party — Self2024
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts — Self2021
- Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free — Himself (archive footage)2021
- Echo in the Canyon — Self2019
- Elvis Presley: The Searcher — Self2018
- The Defiant Ones — Self2017
- Night Flight: Born Again — Self2016
- Soundbreaking — Self2016
- $aving Dat Money — Self2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Gainesville
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Shelter Records
- Discography
- Tom Petty discography
- Official website
- www.tompetty.com
- Image
- Tom Petty Live in Horsens.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Tom Petty
- Commons category
- Tom Petty
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- name in native language
- Tom Petty
- birth name
- Thomas Earl Petty
- date of birth
- 1950-10-20
- date of death
- 2017-10-02
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- manner of death
- accidental death
- member of
- Mudcrutch
- social media followers
- 929000
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- nominated for
- Satellite Award for Best Original Song
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist.
Over the course of his career, Petty sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. His hit singles with the Heartbreakers include "American Girl" (1976), "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979), "Refugee" (1980), "The Waiting" (1981), "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985) and "Learning to Fly" (1991). Petty's solo hits include "I Won't Back Down" (1989), "Free Fallin'" (1989), and "You Don't Know How It Feels" (1994).
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