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What is Petty : the Biography about?
One of Rolling Stone*'s 10 Best Music Books of 2015**An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty***No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write.Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise. From meeting Elvis, to seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, to producing Del Shannon, backing Bob Dylan, putting together a band with George Harrison, Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne, making records with Johnny Cash, and sending well more than a dozen of his own celebrated recordings high onto the charts, Tom Petty's story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Now in his mid-sixties, still making records and still touring, Petty, known for his reclusive style, has shared with Warren Zanes his insights and arguments, his regrets and lasting ambitions, and the details of his life on and off
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- Author
- Warren Zanes
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805099683
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Film, Television & Music
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (315 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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