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Take a bow, Tom!! Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Teenage girl on the phone

“My home in Encino became the meeting place for a little gang of great songwriters and musicians, and it was there in 1988 that the Traveling Wilburys formed, while George Harrison was living in my house. Their first album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, was recorded in my back garden studio. I remember how surreal it was to look out my window and see Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne there, sitting on the grass under a tree, all strumming their guitars. Again I had a friend from England visit me there once, and he had the crazy situation of being on the back porch with a gang of us, having a drink, while George and Tom were singing ‘Taxman’ in his left ear and Bob was telling them to keep the noise down, as he was reciting a poem in his right ear. He looked cross-eyed and was whispering, WTF!” - Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: A Life In Music by Dave Stewart (More at thateventuality on Instagram)

Tom Petty, September 27, 2017 | Photo © Genaro Molina

Tom Petty, photographed by Robert Sebree.

Susin thought right

advert for the basement tapes, 1975.

tom petty, 1994. (day 3)

Petty / Flying V

Tom Petty 🎤 | Somewhere You Feel Free

Dylan & Petty

Tom Petty