- Born
- October 20, 1950
- Died
- October 2, 2017 (aged 66)
- Known as
- guitarist, singer, singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, rock musician
Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist.
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