Thomas Earl Petty (born October 20, 1950 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. Petty did non develop any musical aspirations prior to Elvis Presley visited his hometown. Fallowing working using his early elastic A Sundowners, A Heroic poem, & Mudcrutch (which as well involved new Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench) he began his recording career with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers when the band broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut album. However, it took United states of america a fully season to catch as much as the album. "Breakdown" was re-freed to radio & became the Top 40 hit in 1977 after word filtered back the band was creating a firestorm inside England.

Their 1978 second album ''You're Gonna Get It!'' proved the debut album's intensity was no fluke. Marking a band's number 1 gold album, it features the singles "Listen To Her Heart" & "I Need To Know". Shortly fallowing its release the band was dragged into a legal dispute while ABC Records, Shelter's mother company, was sold to MCA Records. Petty refused to exist as just transferred to an additional record label while forgoing his consent. He stick to his lesson for an extended nine months, which one of these days led to him filing for bankruptcy.

Fallowing a dispute was settled, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers released their third album Damn the Torpedoes (1979) that rapidly became triple-platinum. It includes "Refugee", their United states breakthrough individual. Damn A Torpedoes was followed per unsuccessful however critically acclaimed Hard Promises (1981).

In their fifth album Long After Dark (1982) bass player Ron Blair was replaced by Howie Epstein, giving A Heartbreakers their final line-higher. Notwithstanding, frontman Tom Petty got problems match a stress & profits & decided to slow items down.

In their came-back album Southern Accents (1985) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers picked up where they had left off. A recording was non while forgoing problems — Petty became defeated in the period of the admixture run & broke his left hand when punching it across a wall. A album includes a hit individual "Don't Come Around Here No More" which was produced by Dave Stewart.

The successful concert tour led to the survive album Pack Up The Plantation-Live! (1985). A band's survive capabilities were put to a trial once Bob Dylan invited Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to join him on his True Confessions tour through the US, Australia, Japan (1986) and Europe (1987).

Besides inside 1987, a class action freed ''Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)'', a studio album made to sound like a live recording using a technique they borrowed from Bob Dylan. It includes "Jammin' Me", which Petty wrote using Dylan.

Petty as well appeared within many episodes of ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' (1987 - 1990), playing himself as one of Garry Shandling's neighbors. This indicate originally appeared on the Showtime cable TV channel.

Inside 1989, Petty released Full Moon Fever. Though nominally the solo plan, more Heartbreakers & easily-known musicians participated in the album's production. Mike Campbell co-produced the album using Petty & Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra. It was in the Billboard Top Ten chart for over 34 weeks & earned triple-platinum status, along a way spawning such hits when "I Won't Back Down", "Free Fallin'" & "Runnin' Down A Dream".

Before Good Moon Fever, Lynne & Petty worked together in the tons-stars band Traveling Wilburys, which also counted Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison as members. Traveling Wilburys began as a joke sequentially to record the B-side for a George Harrison lone, however the song "Handle With Care" was such the profits that a class action decided to record a fully album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (1988). Roy Orbison's sudden dying cast the shadow on the profits & shortly later on Del Shannon, whom the left over Wilburys think of as a replacement, committed suicide. Another Wilburys album, cryptically called Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 (1990), followed but couldn't quite live up to expectations.

Petty rejoined by using a Heartbreakers for his next album, Into the Great Wide Open in 1991. It was once again by Jeff Lynne & includes a hit singles "Learning To Fly" & "Into The Great Wide Open".

Inside 1994, Petty freed his 2nd solo album, Wildflowers, which also involved a hit singles "You Don't Know How It Feels", "You Wreck Me", "It's Good to Be King", "A Higher Place" & "Honey Bee".

He has been honored by having Decade Grammy Award nominations since 1981. In this season he received his number one nomination for his collaboration sustaining Stevie Nicks, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" in the category of Better Rock Performance By The Duo or even Class action Sustaining Vocal. Petty earned the Grammy Award in 1989 for even Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Class action By owning Vocal for his function using the Traveling Wilburys. Within 1994 he received some other deuce Grammy Awards: Right Male Rock Vocal Performance (for "You Don't Know How It Feels") & Right Engineered Album (Non-Classical). Wild flower too garnered the Grammy nomination for Right Rock Album.

More Wild flower accomplishment involved Right Male Streaming Award for "You Don't Know How It Feels" at a 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers won the same award in 1994 with the video "Mary Jane's Last Dance". At a 1994 ceremony, Petty was as well presented by having a Streaming videos Vanguard Award, citing his longtime contributions to the field.

As a songster, Tom Petty was acknowledged inside Can 1996 with the prestigious Golden Note Award from ASCAP. Inside April 1996, Petty received UCLA's George And Ira Gershwin Award For Lifetime Musical Achievement. Inside 2002 a group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Around 1999 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7018 Hollywood Blvd., an honor that acknowledges both their musical achievements and their humanitarian involvement with such organizations as Greenpeace, the National Veteran's Foundation, USA Harvest, Rock And Wrap It Up, and AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research).

Inside 2002 he appeared in The Simpsons, in the episode "What I Did In My Strummer Vacation". He has likewise voiced a character Lucky within King of the Hill.

Within 2005, Tom Petty began hosting his own indicate "Buried Treasure" in XM Radio. On the indicate, Tom shares selections from either his home record collection.

Discography
Studio albums: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers