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Did You Know...

...that Bob Dylan and Tom Petty once showed up to a press conference wearing ridiculous make-up?

...that the Heartbreakers once dumped Chinese food all over their luggage?

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

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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