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(“Mojo” entered the chart and peaked at No. The biggest included: “Damn the Torpedoes” from 1979, “Hard Promises” in 1981, “The Last DJ” in 2002, and “Mojo” in 2010. The group churned out hit album after hit album as well.

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Songs like “Don’t Do Me Like That,” “Free Fallin’,” “Listen To Her Heart,” “The Waiting,” “Learning to Fly” and “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” their collaboration with Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks for her solo album “Bella Donna,” quickly became staples of Top 40 and FM radio playlists. Petty and his cohorts rejuvenated a more stripped-down, passion-filled, elemental form of rock ‘n’ roll that they had soaked up in the ’50s and ’60s, and which manifested in nearly 30 singles that made Billboard’s Hot 100 sales ranking. It was a breath of fresh air amid a rising tide of “corporate rock” bands - such as Kansas, Foreigner, Bad Company and Journey - that boasted stellar musicianship but produced often faceless music. Initially lumped in with the burgeoning punk rock scene, and later affiliated more with the singer-songwriter-focused new wave movement, Petty and the Heartbreakers rose to fame in 1977 with their first Top 40 single, the sultry, bluesy hit “Breakdown.” King, and soul stirrings of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke thrown in. Petty and his mates distilled a signature sound that was as influenced as much by The Byrds as the Beatles, with the swagger of the Rolling Stones and some doses of Muddy Waters, B.B.

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He was great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.” “It’s shocking, crushing news,” his longtime friend and collaborator Bob Dylan said. 25 with a three-night homecoming stand that sold out at the Hollywood Bowl. Petty had just completed an extensive tour to mark the Heartbreakers’ 40th anniversary.

For hours, multiple media outlets reported his death only to retract those reports his death was confirmed Monday night by his family’s spokeswoman. Reportedly found unconscious at his Malibu home on Sunday night, Petty was rushed to UCLA’s Santa Monica hospital in full cardiac arrest and died Monday at 66. He emerged as one of the most vocal and tireless champions of artistic integrity and musical purity in the record business. Tom Petty rode to the pinnacle of pop music stardom with his beloved and long-running rock band the Heartbreakers, born out of the ashes of a group that flopped when he brought them from Gainesville, Fla., to California in the mid-1970s.

LA Times (“ Tom Petty, Heartbreakers frontman who sang ‘Breakdown,’ ‘Free Fallin” and other hits, dies at 66“): The legendary American rocker Tom Petty has died of a heart attack at the age of 66. INGLEWOOD, CA – OCTOBER 10: Tom Petty of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers performs onstage at The Forum on Octoin Inglewood, California.