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Did You Know...

...that a scammer bilked $450,000 from investors and artists by impersonating Stan Lynch?

...that Tom Petty met Phil Everly while picking his daughter up from school?

...that on the 4th of July, 1976, the air conditioning broke down during the recording of "American Girl"?

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"I read the other day that video games are taking 15 billion dollars directly our of the record business. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather put seven dollars' worth of quarters into a Pac-Man machine than into some dip-shit album."

- Tom Petty