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"Okay, howzabout 'Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' is purely and simply the best mainstream rock debut by any American band this year and anyone who doesn't rush out and buy the booger immediately don't know nuthin!' And yes, I really do believe the first half of the statement to be perfectly true."

- Giovanni Dadamo, Sounds magazine

Did You Know...

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

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

...that Tom Petty appeared with Dwight Twilley on a children's television show called Wacko?

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"This is rock & roll in the Eighties. Your own bus, a tape deck that doesn't work, and a Power Bar." - Tom Petty