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"He didn't tap a foot or move his head or anything. He listened to it all the way through and I thought he hated it": When an Eagle, Heartbreaker, Roger Linn and an Oberheim OB-X combined forces for a pop masterpiece – the Boys Of Summer story

Best of 2024: Tom Petty rejected Mike Campbell's synth and drum machine demo, Don Henley didn't make that mistake… but the 1984 hit had other obstacles to overcome

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“Prince is overtly sexual. I am very quietly sexual. That's the difference”: What Stevie Nicks said about her famous friends - and famous ex-partners

And why Tom Petty told her: ‘You don’t need help!”

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“I’m not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together — that makes me”: The 5 George Harrison post-Beatles songs you need to hear

Freed from the creative confines of The Beatles, George Harrison set out to realise his true creative potential. Here are five of his finest works…

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“When Clarence White entered the band, it elevated their guitar work. White and Roger McGuinn were electrifying”: Christian Parker on the Byrds’ legacy as folk-rock trailblazers, gear innovators and righteous players in their own right

Parker’s two consecutive albums of Byrds covers showcase the brilliance of one of the '60s most underappreciated guitar powerhouses

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“They’re starting to call us punks. It was absurd, these stupid labels. One day I said to a guy, ‘If you call me a punk again, I’m gonna cut ya’”: How Tom Petty took on the record industry and won with Damn The Torpedoes

The story behind Tom Petty’s classic 1979 album Damn The Torpedoes and its follow-up Hard Promises

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Court rules that Ed Sheeran did not steal song idea from Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On

Ed Sheeran was accused of infringing copyright of Marvin Gaye's massive hit on his own song Thinking Out Loud

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Snoop Dogg's 'weed song'

Snoop Dogg says his upcoming collaboration with Jelly Roll and the late musician Tom Petty is a "weed song".

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“Mick Fleetwood asked me to join the band, but I don’t think Stevie voted against me… I don’t play like Lindsey, but I was able to do the songs justice”: Mike Campbell on the challenge of joining Fleetwood Mac and what he learned from Tom Petty

He could always write songs, but spending all those years by Tom Petty's side taught Campbell a thing or two about fronting a band. He tells GW how these lessons are shaping the sound of the Dirty Knobs and what life was really like in Fleetwood Mac

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Stevie Nicks realised she had late-stage eye disease after psychedelic-style hallucinations

Years after reports she has been stricken with terrible sight, Stevie Nicks has admitted she realised she had late-stage eye disease after experience psychedelic-style hallucinations.

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"An exercise in restrained elegance": Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Long After Dark, perhaps as it was always meant to be

A remastered Tom Petty classic, with previously unreleased and extra tracks

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“Why are you doing this?”: Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell recalls his conversation with Tom Petty after he’d sent him the songs he’d written for his side project

“Well, if they’re really good, why don’t we do them?” Petty asked him

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Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party review – 80s solid-rock nostalgia fest is a trip

Fans of the singer’s hits, fluffy mullets (and young Cameron Crowe) are well-served by unseen and remastered footage as this sweet look back ticks all the relevant rock doc boxes

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I can't stop listening to the soundtrack for this Apple TV Plus show

Bad Monkey's soundtrack consists largely of Tom Petty covers, and I can't stop listening to the songs that've been released.

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“I sold 120 of them because I don’t have room for them anymore”: Mike Campbell says he's quit buying guitars, despite his continuing “obsession”

“At this point,” the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitar-slinger tells GW, “buying them is kind of pathetic”

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Austrian Audio Hi-X25BT

Austrian Audio has brought its sonic talents to the wireless market with the Hi-X25BT Bluetooth headphones. To our ears, it’s been an utterly seamless transition.

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"How does anybody get better after something like that?" The Cadillac Three's Jaren Johnston lost his father to Covid. Celebrity fans and the biggest shows of his career are of little comfort

Haunted by grief, driven to succeed: an intimate portrait of The Cadillac Three

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Mezcal, coffee plantations and Bitchin' Sauce: Six things you need to know about L.A. Edwards

L.A. Edwards are a family affair and successful entrepreneurs, and while music might be their first love, it won’t be their last

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“I use a lot of chords with open strings. The guys in the Heartbreakers used to laugh at me, saying, ‘You’re doing the bagpipes again!’” Mike Campbell on his unorthodox guitar style – and how Tom Petty saved his definitive Breakdown lick

With Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits out now, Campbell reflects on a life in music, from first guitars to success with the Heartbreakers and the Dirty Knobs, and lessons learned along the way

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“We were courting Rick Rubin, who told us he’d listened to it with Tom Petty. ‘Wow!’ Tom said. ‘Now that’s something you don’t hear every day’”: Jet on the making of Are You Gonna Be My Girl and how it ended up in an iPod ad

“People talk about the song’s similarity to Lust for Life. It has that rhythm - but so do You Can’t Hurry Love and Town Called Malice”

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‘Tom Petty heard it and said: “Wow!”’ Jet on how they made Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Written in a garden shed, the song that soundtracked Apple’s iPod ad has survived comparisons with Lust for Life – and a shonky performance with nonsense lyrics

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Miley Cyrus Faces Copyright Lawsuit: Did 'Flowers' Copy Bruno Mars' Hit?

Miley Cyrus is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Tempo Music Investments. The lawsuit alleges that her hit single, 'Flowers, ' plagiarizes significant parts of Bruno Mars' song, 'When I Was Your Man.'

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“If you’re a country music fan, who doesn’t put these guys on their Mount Rushmore to record with?”: Vince Gill, John Osborne and Brent Mason tapped for a new single – and it's an all-star tribute to the Telecaster

Tele-Man brings together some of country music’s finest guitarists for a tribute to the genre's finest electric guitar

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“Prince nursed these kinds of slights. There’s spite and aggression in the performance”: Prince’s iconic While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo was an “act of revenge” for being left off Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists list

Prince's famous solo from the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was performed a year after Rolling Stone omitted him from its list

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"All the blood rushed into my fist and I decked him. He fell to the ground like a tipped cow": What happened the night Vince Neil punched Izzy Stradlin

A feud between Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses came to a head at the MTV Awards in 1989, and it still hasn't been resolved

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Listen to Eddie Vedder team up with members of AC/DC and Red Hot Chili Peppers for new version of Tom Petty's Room At The Top, one of 21 Petty covers on the soundtrack to Bad Monkey

The soundtrack to new Apple TV+ show Bad Monkey features Tom Petty covers recorded by Eddie Vedder, Weezer, The War On Drugs, Larkin Poe and more

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