You can blame Classic Rock for Mike Campbell’s memoir,” our writer Jaan Uhelszki told me when I asked her to interview Tom Petty’s righthand man and legendary Heartbreaker for this issue.
“The first time I interviewed him, back in April 2014, it was for this mag,” she continued. “In the middle of his reminiscences about recording Refugee, with its punishing 71 takes, he told me about the time Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick burst into the Heartbreakers dressing room, bellowing: ‘I’m looking for a dude with a ’lude.’ I knew then that the guitarist had to write a book.” And with Jaan’s coercion, he did exactly that. She talks to him about life, love, Tom Petty and more in the new issue.
