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With over 2,000 pages of content covering 50+ years, we offer the most comprehensive archive of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in the known universe.

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Did You Know...

...that Tom Petty wrote a song called "Reptiles" about "what scumsuckers lawyers are"?

...that this website accepts donations, which go directly towards our hosting fees?

...that Tom Petty and Stan Lynch got into an altercation with the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten?

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"We're a rock & roll band. We ain't no punk band, we ain't folk rock, jazz rock, or any of that bullshit. Just rock, and we don't put no other name on it than that. We'd be stupid if we did."

- Tom Petty