Dead according to Twitter.
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Dead according to Twitter.
Heart broken, as it happens.
Seems a full cardiac arrest in the last 24 hours that he's not recovered from.
RIP, if confirmed, some anthemic songs that I like to sing along to.
Really liked his stuff. Hope the rumour is untrue.
Just said on Radio 2 he is critically ill.
Ah very sad, just seen Charlie's post.
Top performer, and another Travelling Wilbury gone
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JUST IN: Rocker Tom Petty is dead at 66, Los Angeles Police Department confirms to CBS News <a href="https://t.co/XJp3mc69Rl">pic.twitter.com/XJp3mc69Rl</a></p>— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/914942974253043718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Oh please no no no
Very sad. A grim day for America. Petty was an iconic figure and seemed to be a really good bloke.
So sad, another legend leaves us. What a truly hideous day this has been.
RIP Tom.
Top bloke.
Freefalling , R I P Tom
A class act RIP.
This is shit news
One of my all time played songs in my itunes library. This video from almost 40 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNgt7U9QrFQ
You can see where the Strokes copied their music from.
Is Tom Petty still alive? Clinging to life according to some reports. Obviously not great but a little bit of hope maybe
Who hasn't had a Tom Petty phase. He was the soundtrack to my summer when I was about 17. Perfect American rock and roll. RIP.
Edit:
https://mobile.twitter.com/USATODAY
According to some reports he was pretty much dead when they put him on life support. I think things have been thrown in the air by the LAPD not being able to conform he's dead. It's not really a police matter, so I don't know why they would.
R I P Tom
https://youtu.be/L5pHM-o2_Dk
One of his best. Sad sad day!
He might not be backing down yet....
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...s-heart-attack
US singer Tom Petty is seriously ill in hospital after a suspected heart attack, according to reports.
The singer-songwriter was reportedly rushed to the UCLA Santa Monica hospital on Monday after being found unconscious in his Malibu home. Initial reports, based on an LAPD source who spoke to CBS News and Variety, said Petty had died.
However, LAPD later tweeted that the department has “no information about the passing of singer Tom Petty” and any information had been “inadvertently provided”. The force apologized “for any inconvenience in this reporting”.
Sounds like he's alive but not expected to last much longer.
A sad day for music if/when he does lose the fight.
One of those guys - like Neil Young, Paul Rodgers etc. - that you forget just how many great songs they've given to the world.
Damn, one of my favourites.
R.I.P. Tom
Another great rock artist has gone :(
Caught him live in '78 at Knebworth. An excellent live set
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41475013
Died just after 3.30am this morning our time so the reports pushed out early yesterday were untrue but upsetting all the same.
RIP.
I remember seeing him at the Capitol.
RIP Tom yet another good ole southern boy passed
Showing my usual impeccable judgment, I decided to stay in the pub and give the support band a miss before going to see Nils Lofgren in the Capitol in 1977 I believe it was - daft thing was that I was aware of how good Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were and still thought a couple of pints of Brains (after all, I'd only be having about another ten thousand of them in my life!) was a better bet than seeing a band which provided some of the best singles to come out of America in the last forty years.
RIP to someone who came over as a nice bloke.
Devastated. He was one of the few musicians I would buy his new stuff without reviewing and he never let me down.
Listening to the Last DJ album driving into work today.
He has given me countless hours of entertainment over the years and will continue to do so with his great back catalogue. Saddened that there will be no more new material.
TV did a long documentary on him a few years ago; great insight into the man.
I will always regret being on holiday in 77 when he played the Union with Nils Logfren.
I believe it was with Boomtown Rats that Tom Petty played the Students Union with in the summer of '77, not Nils Lofgren. TP & The Heartbreakers headlined with the Bumtown Prats as support. Sometime early in '78 the The Rats returned to play the Union as headliners. Somehow or other I ended up getting extremely pissed with the band backstage. Geldof kept referring to the band as Tom Petty & The Windbreakers lol.
It was at Cardiff Capitol Theatre early in '77 that Tom Petty supported Nils Lofgren
Not my bag overall. I listened again though this morning. Was a man of principle. Wouldn't let the record company add a dollar to the price his album once he made it, according to whispering Bob.
He's got my respect after what he did to the Jacks. :ayatollah: