Tom Petty will receive a posthumous doctoral degree in music from the University of Florida after the school’s board of trustees voted unanimously to honor the late rocker Friday. While the Heartbreakers frontman never attended the University of Florida, he was born and raised in Gainesville — where the school …
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Tom Petty and producer Rick Rubin talk about collaborating in a clip from Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers, a documentary about the recording of the classic 1994 LP. After screening for one-night-only in theaters on October 20th — Petty’s birthday — the film will head …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
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