Tom Petty married before he was famous and shared two kids with his first wife, Jane Benyo. He became a stepfather in his second marriage to Dana York. His three children have grown up, so what do they do now?
Tom Petty | Andrew Chin/Getty Images for Aba Tom Petty had three kids
Petty had two daughters, Adria and Annakim, with Benyo. Following their divorce, he married York and became the stepfather to her son, Dylan. He said that he was never as laid back as his public image made him seem, and he wanted to pass down his passion to his children.
“I have a very blessed life,” he told Parade in 2010. “I think any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed. That’s what I try to instill in my kids. Go after what you really love and find a...
Tom Petty | Andrew Chin/Getty Images for Aba Tom Petty had three kids
Petty had two daughters, Adria and Annakim, with Benyo. Following their divorce, he married York and became the stepfather to her son, Dylan. He said that he was never as laid back as his public image made him seem, and he wanted to pass down his passion to his children.
“I have a very blessed life,” he told Parade in 2010. “I think any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed. That’s what I try to instill in my kids. Go after what you really love and find a...
- 4/2/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Tom Leadon, the co-founder of Tom Petty’s early Seventies band Mudcrutch and the brother of original Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon, died March 22 at the age of 70.
“It is with great sadness, but profound love and gratitude for his life, that the family of Tom Leadon (Thomas Joseph Leadon) of Nashville, Tennessee and Gainesville, Florida, announce his passing on March 22, 2023 peacefully of natural causes,” a post on Tom Petty’s official fan club said.
“Tom Leadon was my deepest guitar soul brother,” Mike Campbell wrote on Instagram. “We spent countless...
“It is with great sadness, but profound love and gratitude for his life, that the family of Tom Leadon (Thomas Joseph Leadon) of Nashville, Tennessee and Gainesville, Florida, announce his passing on March 22, 2023 peacefully of natural causes,” a post on Tom Petty’s official fan club said.
“Tom Leadon was my deepest guitar soul brother,” Mike Campbell wrote on Instagram. “We spent countless...
- 3/27/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In 1980, John Lennon died after a fan shot him outside his apartment building, and the lives of many musicians were changed forever. Some knew Lennon personally; others had grown up with his songs. Regardless, his death sent shockwaves through the music world. Here’s how seven different musicians reacted to Lennon’s death.
John Lennon | Helmut Reiss/United Archives via Getty Images Dolly Parton recalled watching the news coverage
For Dolly Parton, The Beatles were the soundtrack of her teenage years. She explained that she had planned to go out on the night of his death but ended up staying in to watch the news coverage.
“Everyone was so heartbroken,” she told Today. “Like all young teenage girls back then, I fell in love with the Beatles. Back there in the Smoky Mountains, it was like something had been dropped from outer space.”
Parton went on to cover Lennon’s song “Imagine.
John Lennon | Helmut Reiss/United Archives via Getty Images Dolly Parton recalled watching the news coverage
For Dolly Parton, The Beatles were the soundtrack of her teenage years. She explained that she had planned to go out on the night of his death but ended up staying in to watch the news coverage.
“Everyone was so heartbroken,” she told Today. “Like all young teenage girls back then, I fell in love with the Beatles. Back there in the Smoky Mountains, it was like something had been dropped from outer space.”
Parton went on to cover Lennon’s song “Imagine.
- 3/4/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The 1996 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Songs and Music From the Motion Picture ‘She’s the One’ is such a weird outlier in the band’s catalog that even Tom Petty himself didn’t quite know what to make of it. “It was kind of a confused album for us,” Petty told writer Paul Zollo in his book Conversations With Tom Petty. “It got stocked in the soundtrack section. It didn’t really come out like a Heartbreakers record. So it didn’t feel like we made a record or anything.
- 7/15/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks came in at number nine. The following piece was originally published in a Dylan special issue in 2015.
In the spring of 1974, Dylan returned to Carnegie Hall, where he’d first played a small recital hall in 1961, just days after signing with Columbia. But it wasn’t music that brought him there.
In the spring of 1974, Dylan returned to Carnegie Hall, where he’d first played a small recital hall in 1961, just days after signing with Columbia. But it wasn’t music that brought him there.
- 10/2/2020
- by Joe Levy
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier today, the Tom Petty estate finally rolled out details of the long-awaited deluxe edition of his 1994 solo LP Wildflowers. The five-cd set (also available as a nine-lp box) will feature 10 unreleased songs cut during the original Wildflowers sessions, 15 homemade demos from the era, live songs, and alternate versions of the album tracks.
It’s a project that Petty spoke about often in the final years of his life. “There’s 11 or 12 [new] songs on the album,” he told Rolling Stone in 2016. “I think people are going to like it a lot.
It’s a project that Petty spoke about often in the final years of his life. “There’s 11 or 12 [new] songs on the album,” he told Rolling Stone in 2016. “I think people are going to like it a lot.
- 8/20/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In the final years of his life, Tom Petty spoke often about his plan to re-release his 1994 masterpiece Wildflowers as a double album and then play it straight through on a special tour. “I probably haven’t even told the band about this yet,” Petty said in 2016, “but they can read about it in Rolling Stone.” His focus on the LP is easy to understand; song-for-song, it is perhaps Petty’s single greatest achievement. “That was where I was really at the top of my game as far as craft...
- 11/1/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
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