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Did You Know...

...that Tom Petty credits Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band as being a big influence on the Heartbreakers' live show?

...that recording of "The Waiting" was held up by a gorilla?

...that a teenaged Tom Petty got put on probation for stealing hood ornaments?

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"But people can also give up on their dreams because they get sidetracked. They get rich or get famous or whatever it was they thought was going to bring them happiness, and they find it's not everything they thought. People sometimes have the wrong dreams."

- Tom Petty