Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks collaborated on the 1981 songs "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and "Insider" Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

At the start of 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a struggling band on the brink of something big. In quick succession, they landed a fresh record contract, started writing promising new ...

Tom Petty’s closest musical partner is lifting the lid on his untold life in an extraordinary book released Tuesday. “Well, first of all, I told the truth. And second of all, I would take ...

Rebecca Sapp/Getty; Stephen Lovekin/Getty Tom Petty's substance abuse issues in the 1990s were a battle he had to fight himself. Mike Campbell, who was the lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Hea ...

When will ‘Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party’ be available to stream? The music doc will arrive on Paramount+ at 3:01 a.m. ET (or just after midnight on the West Coast) on Tuesday, March 11.

He has not won a race since 1984. His last championship came in 1979. But Richard Petty's big sunglasses, cowboy hat and that No. 43 still loom large over stock-car racing. Petty raced for a ...

"You couldn't talk Tom into anything," Campbell says of the rock icon, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017.