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"I don't know if it's just Gainesville, maybe it's the whole country, but there are few places where you can go into a club and actually hear musicians doing things, playing rock. 'I'm into jazz, I'm past rock & roll.' That's a fairly common excuse. Rock music is just pretty rare these days."

- Tom Petty

Did You Know...

...that Hard Promises had a working title of Benmont's Revenge?

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

...that the concrete slab bearing Tom Petty's handprints, intended for a Gainesville Walk of Fame, eventually ended up sitting in a garage?

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"Tom Petty is a particularly American story."

- Peter Bogdanovich