A single, “Breakdown”, peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1976, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released a self-titled album. He moved to Los Angeles and met Ron Blair again at a recording studio in 1976. My father looked at me as if I were going to wear a dress and dance in the circus.” In 1970, Lynch met Ron Blair and was a roadie for Blair. Choosing to be a musician back then was not like choosing a job, but an entire lifestyle. I didn’t really think that they would be my ticket out of the ghetto.
My parents didn’t have money. I played guitar and piano, and I always thought I was going to be a guitar player. The drums were sort of a happy accident. Lynch recalls, “As a kid I had very little opportunity. His family moved to Gainesville, Florida, while he was a child. Stanley Joseph “Stan” Lynch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1955. My father looked at me as if I were going to wear a dress and dance in the circus.” He recalls, “As a kid I had very little opportunity. Another member of the band was Cincinnati, Ohio, born Stan Lynch. He joined Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1976. Raised in a Navy family, Ron played in a rock band in Japan while his father was posted in that island nation.
Ronald Edward Blair was born in 1948 in San Diego. Petty and Tench played together as members of The Sundowners in 1964. Benmont Tench met Tom Petty at a music store at the age of eleven. He began taking piano lessons as a child, but switched from classical piano to pop music when he first heard the Beatles at the start of the British Invasion. Campbell was strongly influences by Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Neil Young (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Carl Wilson (of the Beach Boys), Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead), the Beatles’ George Harrison, Johnny Cash’s backing guitarist Luther Perkins, Elvis Presley’s backing guitarist Scotty Moore, the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones and the Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.īenjamin Montmorency “Benmont” Tench III was born in 1953 in Gainesville, Florida. He grew up in Jacksonville, and got his first guitar at age 16. Michael Wayne Campbell was born in 1950 in Panama City, Florida. Among the bandmates were Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench. Tom Petty first formed a band called the Epics, who by 1970 morphed into Mudcrutch. It wasn’t long before there were groups springing up in garages all over the place.” He dropped out of high school at age 17 to play bass with his newly formed band. But I really saw in the Beatles that here’s something I could do. I had never been hugely into sports. … I had been a big fan of Elvis. You get your friends and you’re a self-contained unit. He recalls, “The minute I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show-and it’s true of thousands of guys-there was the way out.
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While still ten years old, Tom Petty met Elvis Presley on the film set for Follow That Dream. But it was seeing the Beatles on TV in February 1964, that gave Tom Petty his inspiration. His father was a traveling salesman, and his mom worked at a tax office. Thomas Earl Petty was born in 1950 in Gainesville, Florida. #168: Refugee by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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