* 1950 – Steve Ferrone, English drummer ( Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Average White Band

A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including: George Thorogood, Tom Petty, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

King, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, the Black Lips and Ronnie Wood.

ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up ( with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol.

* 1952 – Scott Thurston, American musician ( Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Iggy and the Stooges )

* 1955 – Howie Epstein, American bass player ( Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ) ( d. 2003 )

" Little Nemo in Slumberland " is also the inspiration for the video of the 1989 song Runnin ' Down a Dream by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

In 1979, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would adopt the Rickenbacker 12-string " toaster " jangle into their records and still use the vintage 1960s models.

In 1988, he joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne and also released a new solo album.

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.

The biggest hit from the album was " You Got It ", written by Lynne and Tom Petty.

* 1948 – Ron Blair, American bass player ( Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers )

* 1953 – Benmont Tench, American keyboard player ( Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch )

In 1988, while recording his album Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty and his lead guitarist Mike Campbell called on the group to provide backing vocals for the song " Waiting for Tonight ".

The Traveling Wilburys ( sometimes shortened to the Wilburys ) were an English – American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, accompanied by drummer Jim Keltner.

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.

Tom Petty said about the Wilburys touring:

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 ).

*" Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr " – Tom Petty

*" Muddy Wilbury " – Tom Petty

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

RBBS-PC, ported over from the CP / M world, and Fido BBS, created by Tom Jennings ( who later founded FidoNet ) were the first notable DOS BBS programs.

But from 1985 until he died, his touring band consisted of Debby Hastings ( bass / musical director ), Frank Daley or Nunzio Signore ( guitar ), Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada or Sandy Gennaro ( drums ), and his personal manager, Margo Lewis ( keyboards ).

Currently, WBBM ( 780 AM / 105. 9 FM ) airs the Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 – 1992, and sideline reporter Zach Zaidman.

The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.

This device is used by folk musicians, " one man bands " and singer / songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Tom Harmon, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen and blues singers Jimmy Reed and John Hammond Jr ..

* The Tom Tom Club song " Genius of Love " featured the lines " Steppin ' to the rhythm of a Kurtis Blow / Who needs to think when your feet just go.

Her second collection, The Trouble with You Earth People ( Donning / Starblaze, 1980 ) contains " The Trouble with You Earth People ", " The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl ", " Syndrome Johnny ", " Trouble with Treaties " ( with Tom Condit ), " The Origin of the Species ", " Collision Orbit ", " The Fittest ", " These Truths ", " Contagion ", " Brain Wipe " and her Nebula Award-winning " The Missing Man ".

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

* 1894-First ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook, on Christmas Day, by Jack Clarke, Tom Fyfe and George Graham

* Tom Kaulitz, Guitarist / Songwriter / Producer of Tokio Hotel

In 1985, Tom Newman, a Stanford graduate student, successfully reduced the first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities by 1 / 25, 000, and collected the second Feynman prize.

It is widely accepted that Jake Burton Carpenter ( founder of Burton Snowboards ) and / or Tom Sims ( founder of Sims Snowboards ) invented snowboarding.

The other regular contributors to the book are letterer Stan Sakai ( himself the creator / artist of the equally famous Usagi Yojimbo ), and colorist Tom Luth.

In the aftermath of the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks, Tom Clancy commented on CNN about the very close similarity between the events in the novel and those attacks.

The name may have been created to distinguish him from his principal collaborator, also called Maso, who came to be known as Masolino (" little / delicate Tom ").

* Tom Waits – Himself / Singer in bar ( uncredited )

** Tom Verlaine, American rock singer / guitarist ( Television )

** Stompin ' Tom Connors, Canadian country / folk singer

* Hoxton Tom McCourt ( musician / face, born in Hoxton )

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.