This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK ...

It’s difficult to gauge how deep the Petty vaults go, but if this reissue is any indicator then Heartbreaker fans have plenty to look forward to. It comes with an extra 12 tracks – just to put that in ...

We definitely have a lot of fun over here.” That very same Sunday, up in Flagler County, Kyle Petty stopped by one of the beach’s most loved and longstanding waterfront restaurants — High ...

In 2024, the long-thought lost 16mm reels of Tom Petty in Cameron Crowe’s first film, Heartbreakers Beach Party, were finally found. The classic ‘80s documentary captures Tom Petty and the band in ...

Had he not died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017, Tom Petty, the prolific guitar rocker whose radio hits include “Refugee,” “American Girl,” and “You Got Lucky,” would be ...

In that way, Heartbreakers Beach Party helps to shed new light on Long After Dark, which has sometimes undeservedly felt like one of the odd records out in Petty's catalog. But heard from ...

A still of Cameron Crowe and Tom Petty from the documentary Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, released by Trafalgar. (Sacks and Co.) In 1983, Cameron Crowe was an ambitious young music ...

In the film Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, there is a scene in which Petty and director Cameron Crowe shoot the breeze in the singer’s home in Encino, California, at 2am. In a basement in ...

The latter date coincides with what would’ve been Petty’s 74th birthday. The movie, which marked filmmaker and rock journalist Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut, captures Petty and his band ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released Long After Dark, their fifth studio album, in Nov. 1982. Barely two weeks after the record was out, the band was in the studio taking calls from fans to ...