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10-02-2017, 03:07 PM
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Such a sad day in music...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-pet...inkId=43025392 Tom Petty, legendary rocker, is dead at 66 Tom Petty, the rocker best known as the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is dead at 66, CBS News has confirmed. The legendary musician suffered a full cardiac arrest and was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home Sunday night. He was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and put on life support, reports TMZ. Petty rose to fame in the 1970s with his band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The group put out several hits, including "American Girl," "Free Fallin'," "Breakdown," "Listen to Her Heart" and more. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Though Petty and his band debuted their first self-titled record in 1976, they continued to perform over the past four decades. Petty played his last show last Monday, performing three sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl to conclude their 40th anniversary tour. The band wrote on their website that the tour included 53 shows in 24 states. In December, Petty told Rolling Stone that he thought this would be the group's last tour together. He said, "It's very likely we'll keep playing, but will we take on 50 shows in one tour? I don't think so. I'd be lying if I didn't say I was thinking this might be the last big one. We're all on the backside of our sixties. I have a granddaughter now I'd like to see as much as I can. I don't want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid, that's a lot of time." Petty, who released three solo albums and 13 albums with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, also took part in the 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne.
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10-02-2017, 04:24 PM
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Tom Petty and the Heart breakers are my second fave band of all time, after Fleetwood Mac.
I've seen them many times.This is making me cry. Last edited by TheWildHeart67; 10-02-2017 at 04:30 PM..
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10-02-2017, 03:15 PM
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Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, died Monday. He was found unconscious, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home Sunday night, according to TMZ, and rushed to the hospital and placed on life support. EMTs were able to find a pulse when they found him, but TMZ reported that the hospital found no brain activity when he arrived. A decision was made to pull life support. CBS confirmed Petty's death. He was 66.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recently completed a summer tour last Monday with three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. The trek marked the band's 40th anniversary and found him playing rarely played deep cuts like their first album's opener, "Rockin' Around (With You)," and a selection of Wildflowers cuts. It was intended to be his "last trip around the country." He told Rolling Stone, though, that it wasn't his intention to quit playing. "I need something to do, or I tend to be a nuisance around the house," he said. In the late Seventies, Petty's romanticized tales of rebels, outcasts and refugees started climbing the pop charts. When he sang, his voice was filled with a heartfelt drama that perfectly complemented the Heartbreakers' ragged rock & roll. Songs like "The Waiting," "You Got Lucky," "I Won't Back Down," "Learning to Fly" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance" all dominated Billboard's rock chart, and the majority of Petty's albums have been certified either gold or platinum. His most recent release, Hypnotic Eye, debuted at Number One in 2014. Petty, who also recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. This story is developing.
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10-02-2017, 03:17 PM
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I am devastated. Just so upset.
First, the Vegas shootings. Then one of my fave musicians of all time suddenly is dead. 
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01-19-2018, 09:15 PM
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TOM PETTY DIED FROM MASSIVE ACCIDENTAL DRUG OD
1/19/2018 3:51 PM PST TMBZ Tom Petty's Autopsy, Singer Died from Massive Accidental Drug Overdose Tom Petty's autopsy results are in, and they show the singer died from an accidental drug overdose as a result of taking a variety of medications. The L.A. County Coroner says a number of Tom's organs failed due to "mixed drug toxicity." The autopsy report says when paramedics arrived he was in full cardiac arrest, but CPR revived him -- but on the way to the hospital he lost pulse for 20 minutes. He went into cardiac arrest a second time in the hospital and died 21 hours after being admitted. Tom's autopsy report shows the singer was on several pain meds, including Fentanyl patches, oxycodone (Oxycontin), temazepam (Restoril), alprazolam (Xanax), citalopram (Celexa), acetyl fentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl. The reason doctors prescribed the meds was because of a number of medical problems, including emphysema, knee problems and a fractured hip. The family says the linchpin to Tom's demise was the fractured hip. He insisted on touring for 53 concert dates with the condition, which worsened over time and caused him to take the meds. On the date he had the heart attack he was told his hip had graduated to a full-on break that made the pain unbearable and may have caused the overuse of meds. The autopsy says Petty suffered from coronary artery atherosclerosis. As we reported ... Tom's official death certificate left his cause of death as "deferred," leaving it as a mystery until now. We broke the story ... Tom went into full cardiac arrest before being taken to a hospital in L.A. He eventually died when his family took him off life support. Fentanyl was also linked to the deaths of Prince and Lil Peep. Tom was 66.
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01-19-2018, 11:35 PM
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So sad.
The coronary artery disease and the emphysema seem likely due to his heavy smoking for so many years. (Just like my dad, who also had a cardiac arrest )It seems like the family is right, that if he'd postponed the tour and had the hip treated, it's likely he'd still be here.... at least for a while longer to manage his other illnesses. I see colleagues in my field do the same sort of thing-- they have this belief that 'the job' is more important than their own health, and that taking some time off to take care of themselves will somehow be detrimental to their career. Such a shame. He is missed. 
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01-20-2018, 08:01 AM
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He should never have toured. I saw him in Pittsburgh on that tour and they were wonderful. I don't know how he did it. We noticed his hands shaking at times and we wondered if something was going on. I think he was probably the type of person that didn't want to go to Doctors. Just give me something for the pain. It hopefully bring more light to the Opiod crisis the country is going through. What a horrible tragedy his loss it. I'm sill so upset about his passing.
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01-20-2018, 01:01 PM
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01-20-2018, 12:12 PM
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01-20-2018, 12:43 PM
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I am absolutely gutted by this news. Why oh why was he not in the hospital? I saw a few fan reviews from the last tour that said he was "off." I didn't believe it. Once again I feel so bad for his poor family.
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