Tom Petty was a musician’s musician. A man other musicians wanted to work with. The stars all lined up to do so, from Bob Dylan to Stevie Nicks, from Jeff Lynne to George Harrison and Johnny Cash. But he remained firmly rooted on earth, an everyman with the common touch, a blue collar hero in a world of untouchable stardom.
Below, we pick 12 career highlights from the man Alice Cooper called, “an honest renegade, a rebel and a true original.”
