Tom Petty’s estate has released a new music video for “Something Could Happen,” a track off the recent reissue, Wildflowers and All the Rest. The clip opens on a book that tells the story of a woman, played by Lauren Cohan of The Walking Dead,whose “heart has been broken beyond …
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In another life, Stevie Nicks would have been a music-film editor. “I think I’m really good at it,” she says one Friday evening, calling from her home in Los Angeles. Her canine companion Lily is begging for her attention with a toy as Nicks reflects on her second life. “I …
Read More »Taylor Swift: Tom Petty Had 'Songwriting I Idolized'
Many artists paid respects to Tom Petty since his untimely death on Monday. NowTaylor Swift is among them.“To me, Tom Petty represented a kind of songwriting I idolized: complex simplicity,” she said to Rolling Stone. “It said so much in the lyrics, the concepts, the stories, the message, the nuances …
Read More »Tom Petty Proteges the Shelters Remember Their Mentor
The Malibu home studio where Tom Petty worked featured a sign reading “Beware: Cranky Hippie.” Every time Shelters frontman Chase Simpson arrived there, however, that’s hardly the man he encountered. “He was that great, genuine, loving person that you saw onstage,” says Simpson, who grew up with Petty’s stepson, Dylan, …
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