Author Topic: Tom Petty - initial reports from police were incorrect, but he has now passed  (Read 583 times)

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edwardofhuncote

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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2017, 01:50:06 PM »
Oh man, that one hits me hard.  :'(

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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2017, 02:07:29 PM »
Wow... sad news indeed and tragic at such a young age. I just turned 65 and must admit that hearing about so many musician's near my age dying way too young hits home in a big way.

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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2017, 02:11:48 PM »
It has been a terrible 24 hours.
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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2017, 02:28:21 PM »
When I first heard about his heart attack, Wikipedia said "Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer." I checked a little while later and saw it said "was" and I was heartbroken.

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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2017, 02:32:37 PM »
The first time I saw him, was a poster in the window of Sam Goody record store 1978 (Album You're Gonna Get It!)!

Now Tom really is learning to fly!!!


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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2017, 04:04:29 PM »
Rock & Roll Star  -  Very nice live video from three years ago.

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Re: Tom Petty has passed
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2017, 05:10:29 PM »
I just read that he has not, in fact, passed yet - but is not expected to make tomorrow.
Bummer.

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Sad news - Tom's music plays in our house every week. 

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Confirmed by his manager - he passed at 20:40 PDT.

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In addition to the rest of us, Stevie Nicks is going to take this news pretty hard... they were very close. Someone posted on another forum- "...you know you're a bad-ass when Stevie is your backup singer."