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Petty was always seen as the ‘people’s rock star’, the link between the common man and the rock stars up on Valhalla, like ...
As he celebrates the release of his memoir, Heartbreaker, Tom Petty’s right-hand man and dear friend reflects on a career’s ...
At the start of 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a struggling ... we’re at this stage now,” guitarist Mike Campbell, 75, says in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles.
In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville, Fla., cover band called Mudcrutch ...
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 ...
"You couldn't talk Tom into anything," Campbell says of the rock icon, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017. Mike Campbell is ready to shed some light on his complicated friendship with ...
Dylan was smitten with Campbell's LinnDrum and thought it held the secret to creating a chart-topping song as he returned to ...
Through their work in The Heartbreakers, band leader Tom Petty and his guitar foil Mike Campbell developed a sound that would define the group’s entire catalog and go down as one of the most ...
The founding member of the Heartbreakers recently unveiled his new album 'Vagabonds, Virgins and Misfits' For over 40 years, Mike Campbell was an integral member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ...