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“The strap came loose, the amp was up, the guitar was up, and the neck broke off. Bob turned around like, ‘What are you doing back there?’” Mike Campbell recalls breaking his guitar in front of a live audience – in the middle of a Bob Dylan show

Campbell talks about the unfortunate incident on the legendary Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Bob Dylan's True Confessions Tour that led him to break one of his most beloved guitars

Guitar World

Wild-hearted hits: Stevie Nicks’ 20 best songs – ranked!

As she tours the UK, we rate the Fleetwood Mac singer’s very best solo material

The Guardian - UK

Mike Campbell: A good song will age well

The Dirty Knobs guitarist teams up with Chris Stapleton, Lucinda Williams & Graham Nash: "It was like Christmas"

Salon

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"We didn't have a clue what we were doing, but the first playback was one of those moments you never forget": How The Damned took four days and lots of cider to kickstart a revolution

The Sex Pistols may have got all the headlines and The Clash the critical acclaim, but The Damned trumped them all

Louder

Four chords from classic Tom Petty songs to go into the Great Wide Open with – including a capo trick to sound like a 12-string guitar

The late musician was a master songwriter with a catalogue full of inspiring ideas

MusicRadar

“He was an immortal badass”: the genius of Tom Petty, by the people who knew him best

Tom Petty’s daughters, ex-bandmates and peers look back on the life of an American legend

Louder

"Bella Donna had the formula for success: a singer from huge band, a top-notch producer, and a who's who of musicians": Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks

Featuring stellar duets with Tom Petty and Don Henley, Bella Donna established Stevie Nicks as a star in her own right, away from the Fleetwood Mac soap opera

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The making of Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever: "George Harrison went to the store and bought a ginger root, boiled it and had me stick my head in the pot to get the ginger steam to open up my sinuses. Then I ran in and did the take"

More than 33 years after its release, Tom Petty's solo debut is still making headlines thanks to Grand Theft Autio 6. We dig into the creation of a classic album

MusicRadar

"It would just have reminded me of being back in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally": Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on why he turned down joining Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty once asked Dave Grohl to become an official Heartbreaker, but the Foo Fighters frontman wasn't keen

Louder

"Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands

Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk, punk and more punk

Louder

From the heart: The 12 best Tom Petty songs

With chiming guitars and widescreen imagination, Tom Petty's take on Americana was as irresistible as it was authentic

Louder

Tom Leadon, guitarist for Tom Petty-fronted band Mudcrutch, dies at 70

The brother of Eagles multi-instrumentalist Bernie Leadon, Tom Leadon also played with Linda Ronstadt, and co-wrote the Eagles' 1975 track, Hollywood Waltz

Guitar World

Chris Stapleton brings the thunder to Wrigley Field, even if Mother Nature doesn’t

After a storm threat moves up his set and wipes out two opening acts, country rebel deliver a wide-encompassing set of Southern rock songwriting swagger with a guitar-shredding rock sensibility.

Chicago Sun-Times

Super Bowl 42 halftime redux: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ full show

Super Bowl 42 featured Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

USA Today Sports Media Group

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