In May 1975 the three of them formed The Heartbreakers ; not to be confused with Tom Petty's band, which adopted the same name the following year.

Along the way, Harrison had to stop by Tom Petty's house to pick up his guitar ; Petty and his band had backed Dylan on his last tour.

Tom Petty's involvement came by chance, as Harrison had left his guitar at Petty's house and Harrison went to get it and Petty came back with Harrison.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

In 1995, Nicks was reunited with Lindsey Buckingham and contributed the duet " Twisted " to the Twister movie soundtrack, while in 1996 the Sheryl Crow penned " Somebody Stand By Me " featured on the Boys on the Side soundtrack, and Nicks also remade Tom Petty's " Free Fallin '" for Fox's TV hit Party of Five.

In 2006, Nicks performed with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the first leg of their tour in the summer, and later in the year returned as a guest performer for a number of songs on the tour celebrating Petty's 30th anniversary since his debut album.

Tom Petty's Homecoming Concert in Gainesville, FL, which contained performances with Stevie Nicks, was filmed for PBS Soundstage as well as DVD release for March 2007.

Almost a dozen other musicians were enlisted, including members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, guest harmonica from Stevie Wonder, bass guitar from Dean Garcia, string arrangements by Michael Kamen, and Lennox singing duets with Aretha Franklin and Elvis Costello.

These included Mick Jagger's 1993 Wandering Spirit album, Lords of Acid's 1994 Voodoo-U album, Tom Petty's 1994 Wildflowers, AC / DC's 1995 Ballbreaker, Donovan's 1996 Sutras, and Metallica's 2008 Death Magnetic.

The band was composed of the members of The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty's backup band, who took a short break from their work with Petty to record one album, Surf-N-Burn.

Ventura Boulevard is mentioned in Tom Petty's song " Free Fallin '" (" All the vampires walkin ' through the valley, Move west down Ventura Boulevard ...").

A period of abstinence and recovery followed until Tom Petty's cover of " I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better " on his 1989 album Full Moon Fever yielded a huge amount of royalty money to Clark who quickly reverted to drug and alcohol abuse.

During 1993, the Shelter catalogue was bought out by Capitol / EMI, and their imprint The Right Stuff reissued many titles ( except for Tom Petty and J. J. Cale albums, as the Tom Petty Shelter albums are controlled by Petty himself and currently distributed by Rhino, owned by the Warner Music Group, also owners of Petty's current label Reprise Records, and the J. J. Cale Shelter albums are controlled by Universal Music Group, the successor to MCA ).

As of September 2011, Greatest Hits had sold 7, 464, 000 copies in the United States, making it Tom Petty's best-selling album.

He was the featured bass player for Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty's " Stop Draggin ' My Heart Around " single from Nicks ' 1981 debut solo album Bella Donna, as well as other Petty tracks between 1976 and 1981.

This song had a link with " A Good Heart ": " You Little Thief " was written by Benmont Tench, a member of Tom Petty's band, about his relationship with McKee in response to her writing " A Good Heart " about him.

In December 2008 Manning recorded a version of Tom Petty's " Christmas All Over Again ", which premiered on her official Myspace page.

During the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 2006 tour to support Petty's solo release Highway Companion, the band performed the song with Petty singing most of the lead vocals and band member Scott Thurston singing the Roy Orbison part.

Danny also wrote the lyrics to Tom Petty's " She was an American Girl.

" during the intro to Tom Petty's " Runnin ' Down a Dream ".

In Tom Petty's " You Don't Know How It Feels ", the line usually censored from airplay is " Let's roll another joint ", referring to cannabis.

Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers plays a tack piano solo on " To Find A Friend ", featured on Petty's Wildflowers album.

Al Gore used " Let the Day Begin " as his campaign song in the 2000 U. S. Presidential Election and Tom Vilsack used it as his song during his brief 2008 U. S. Presidential Election campaign.

All of his studio albums and EPs charted on the Billboard 200, and many of his singles —" Eazy-Duz-It ", " We Want Eazy ", " Real Muthaphuckkin G's ", and " Just tah Let U Know "— also charted in the U. S. On March 30, 1995, four days after Eazy-E's death, Tom Elerwine, a Daily Arts editor for The Michigan Daily covered Eazy's career in a feature story.

He eventually joined them in the theater during the movie and attacked Tom, cocooning him in a material identical to the xenomorph in Alien, forcing Joel ( who referenced Aliens by growling, " Let go of him, you bitch!

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* " Runaway Trains ", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Let Me Up ( I've Had Enough )

Let Me Up ( I've had Enough ), an album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released in 1987.

Let Me Up ( I've Had Enough ) ( styled on the cover as " Let Me Up ( I've Had Enough )" with quotation marks ) is an album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1987.

In 1988, with Murray McLauchlan and Tom Cochrane, Hyde recorded a benefit single and video for UNICEF called " Let the Good Guys Win.

" ( about a Los Angeles community children's choir ), " Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember ", " To Live or Let Die ", and " Return with Honor ", presented by Tom Hanks.

There is a mutual affection between Meg and Tom that is explored and challenged during a sex scene, where Tom-aware that his life is soon to end-transforms into a desperate weeping puppy and begs Meg to " Let ( him ) do it to ( her )".

A long career in TV followed seeing him play a wide variety of characters including ' Marcus Bannerman ' in the World War I era drama series by Russell T. Davies The Grand in 1999 ; ' Joseph Bazalgette ' the great Victorian industrial engineer in the award winning factual drama / doc Seven Great Industrial Wonders of the World in 2002 ; and ' Tom Crean ' the Irish companion of Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton opposite Kenneth Branagh ; and ' Niven Craig ' in Peter Medak's Let Him Have It.

He has also written several books, ' They Don't Call Me Roger For Nothing ', ' Sorry I'm Late, Tom ', ' Shit Yourself Slim ', ' Roger Mellie's Ad Break ', and ' Roger's Profanisaurus '.

In 1985, as well as producing Eurythmics ' hit album Be Yourself Tonight, Stewart co-produced the album Southern Accents for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as well as co-writing several songs for the album including the hit " Don't Come Around Here No More ".

In 2007 Declare Yourself shot another series of PSAs starring Ben Garant and Tom Lennon of Comedy Central's Reno 911 !.

Among these are Flåklypa Grand Prix, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Wallace and Gromit, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Way Things Go, Edward Scissorhands, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Goonies, Gremlins, the Saw film series, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Cat from Outer Space, Malcolm, Family Guy, American Dad !, and Waiting ...

Perkins's last album, Go Cat Go !, was released during 1996, and featured new collaborations with many of the above artists, as well as George Harrison, Paul Simon, John Fogerty, Tom Petty, and Bono.

Five tracks in the film, but not included on the soundtrack, are: " Moving in Stereo " by The Cars, " American Girl " by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, " We Got the Beat " by The Go Go's, Led Zeppelin's " Kashmir ," and " Jingle Bell Rock " by Bobby Helms.

Odenkirk directed Let's Go to Prison in 2006, written by Tom Lennon and Ben Garant of The State and Reno 911 fame.

Writing for Q magazine in June 1996, Tom Doyle thought that Everything Must Go had " little in common " with its predecessor, The Holy Bible, and saw the album as a return to, and improvement upon, the " epic pop-rock " sound of Gold Against the Soul.

* Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-March 14, 1983, with Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go and March 5, 1995, with Pete Droge

The movie paved the way for later TV and general release films dealing with the topic of AIDS, including Go Toward The Light ( 1988 ), The Littlest Victims, The Ryan White Story ( both 1989 ), Longtime Companion ( 1990 ), and Philadelphia ( 1993 ), which won Tom Hanks, whose Andrew Beckett was similar in many ways to Michael Pierson, an Academy Award for Best Actor.

His other hits were " Julie ( Do Ya Love Me )" ( US # 5 ) ( Canada # 3 ) ( Australia # 3 ) ( written by Tom Bahler ), " Easy Come, Easy Go " ( US # 9 ) ( Canada # 6 ), " Jennifer " ( US # 60 ) ( Canada # 32 ), " La, La, La " ( US # 9 ) ( Canada # 7 ), and " The Drum " ( US # 29 ) ( Canada # 7 ) ( written by Alan O ' Day ).

Besides his work with Toto, he also performed as a session musician with artists such as Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Willy DeVille, Jackson Browne, Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Jackson, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Love and Money, Paul Simon, Don Henley, Madonna, Airplay, Al Jarreau, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, America, Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, Tom Scott, Michael McDonald, Amy Holland, Joe Cocker, Stan Getz, Sérgio Mendes, Lee Ritenour, Christopher Cross, James Newton-Howard, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, Jim Messina, Poco, Exile, the Four Tops, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, Les Dudek, Gerry Sack, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Roger Hodgson, Paul Anka, Eric Carmen, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Tommy Bolin, Larry Carlton, Mari Iijima and Seals & Crofts.

He'll Have to Go would become not only a platinum record for Reeves, but a song that would be recorded successfully by more than one hundred other artists including Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Tom Jones, Eddy Arnold and even big band leader Guy Lombardo.

Other roles include the 1982 film If You Could See What I Hear ( where he portrayed blind musician Tom Sullivan ), Body Chemistry, Something for Joey ( as football star John Cappelletti ), Watchers II, High Desert Kill, The Fighter, Go Tell the Spartans and Dead Space, as well as General Klaus Von Kraut in A Man Called Sarge.

* Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-June 17, 1981, with Thin Lizzy, March 15, 1983, with Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go and February 15, 1990, with Lenny Kravitz

* Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-February 6, 1983, with Nick Lowe & His Noise To Go

The songs include " Rip This Joint ", " Start Me Up ", " It's Only Rock ' n Roll ( But I Like It )", and " She's So Cold ", all by the Rolling Stones ; " Are You Gonna Go My Way " by Lenny Kravitz ; " Pump It Up " by Elvis Costello ; and " The Last DJ " by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

His voice credits include Larry the Anaconda in The Wild, “ Clark ” in the “ Clark & Lewis Expedition ” radio commercials for Horizon Air ( with Patrick Warburton as “ Lewis ”), Molt in Disney / Pixar ’ s A Bug's Life, Van in Disney / Pixar ’ s Cars and Cars 2, the narrator for Disney ’ s Go Baby, and Tom ( Jasper ) the cat's voice in Tom and Jerry: The Movie.