Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks collaborated on the 1981 songs "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and "Insider" Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

Rebecca Sapp/Getty; Stephen Lovekin/Getty Tom Petty's substance abuse issues in the 1990s were a battle he had to fight himself. Mike Campbell, who was the lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Hea ...

Tom Petty’s closest ... producer Rick Rubin into Petty’s life, giving him one of his greatest career successes with the multi-platinum, universally lauded Wildflowers album, again almost ...

Gainesville's Tom Petty Park is undergoing renovations to enhance accessibility and recreational opportunities. The park, renamed in 2018 to honor the late musician, will feature new pickleball ...

At the start of 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a struggling band on the brink of something big. In quick succession, they landed a fresh record contract, started writing promising new ...

The late Tom Petty made songwriting look easy, churning out dozens of classic tunes during his long career. According some of the people who were close to him, though, Petty put a lot of effort ...

Mike Campbell was the late Tom Petty’s chief lieutenant in the Heartbreakers during the 41 years of the band’s existence. The guitarist co-produced several of the group’s albums as well as ...

To Mike Campbell as well. The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist tells Billboard that he was actually keeping a journal when the band (then known as Mudcrutch) moved to Los Angeles in 1974 ...

At the start of a surprise appearance at CinemaCon this morning, Tom Cruise took a moment to honor his Top Gun co-star, the late Val Kilmer. Kilmer passed away earlier this week at age 65 ...

Leave it to Tom Rothman to tee up CinemaCon, ever the philosopher, with the ultimate sermon that waves the flag for moviegoing. Acknowledging the elephant in the room at this year’s confab ...

The same team at the White House that refuses to engage with reporters who state their pronouns in emails also can’t handle reading things that make them look bad. The White House press team ...

"You couldn't talk Tom into anything," Campbell says of the rock icon, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017.