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Their hit singles included “You Got Lucky” and “Don’t Come Around Here No More.” Mr. Petty and the Heartbreakers maintained a steady cycle of recording and touring, including a performance at the Live Aid concert, which was broadcast worldwide in 1985. “They couldn’t see that raising the album’s price wouldn’t be fair.” Petty said in 1981, the year “Hard Promises” was released. “MCA has done a great job selling our records, but they couldn’t see the reality of what it’s like on the street,” Mr. Petty, among other tactics, threatened to title it “The $8.98 Album,” and the price did not rise. Petty’s next album, “Hard Promises,” a flagship of what it called “superstar pricing”: $9.98 (more than $28 in today’s dollars) rather than $8.98. Petty sued Shelter’s new parent label, MCA, and declared bankruptcy, ending up in a legal limbo that delayed his next album until a new deal was reached. The band’s second album, “You’re Gonna Get It!,” in 1978, included the singles “Listen to Her Heart” and “I Need to Know.” Another contract dispute followed after the ownership of Shelter changed. He won rights to 50 percent of future publishing royalties after the release of a fourth album. Petty had signed away 100 percent of his publishing rights to Shelter for a $10,000 annual advance on royalties he wanted to renegotiate. Roger McGuinn of the Byrds recorded his own version of the Heartbreakers’ Byrds-style “American Girl.”īut Mr. Then the single “Breakdown” made its way onto American radio, reaching No. The band’s 1976 debut album, “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” made little impact until a tour of England put the album on the British charts. “I think we made the most of not knowing what the hell we were doing,” Mr. Tench and other musicians from Gainesville: Stan Lynch on drums and Ron Blair on bass. He formed the Heartbreakers in late 1975 with Mr.

Petty tried recording with session musicians, but he preferred a steady band. 20, 1950, the first child of Earl Petty, an insurance salesman, and the former Katherine Avery, who was known as Kitty.

Through decades of performing, he and the Heartbreakers steered clear of elaborate showmanship to let their songs and their musicianship speak for themselves. Petty joined as a teenager in his hometown, Gainesville, Fla. The group grew out of Mudcrutch, the band Mr. Petty made music with the Heartbreakers for more than 40 years, starting officially in 1976 in Los Angeles.

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He was a great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.” Petty’s death with a statement: “It’s shocking, crushing news. Dylan responded immediately to reports of Mr. Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison. Petty teamed up with some of his elders and influences to form the Traveling Wilburys, writing and recording with Mr.

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