"High school was the most bitter experience of my life."
- Tom Petty
...that Tom Petty shortened his name because "Tommy Petty" didn't look right on the record?
...that on the 4th of July, 1976, the air conditioning broke down during the recording of "American Girl"?
...that Hard Promises had a working title of Benmont's Revenge?
"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."
