* 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.

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

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

Tom said he almost burst into tears, he was so disappointed and put out.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

The public, Tom said the man told him, wanted realism, and his play wasn't that.

`` We no longer have Tom Moore's and Longfellow's ' heart for any fate ', either '', I said.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

`` This was the coolest, calmest election I ever saw '', Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said.

`` Oh '', said Mr. Partlow, `` that's fine, Tom.

Heidi Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times said of the play " Far more surreal and twisted than Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 12 Ophelias is a reminder of just how morphable and mysterious Shakespeare's original remains.

" Post-left anarchist Bob Black in his long critique of Bookchin's philosophy called Anarchy after leftism said about post-left anarchy that " It is, unlike Bookchinism, “ individualistic ” in the sense that if the freedom and happiness of the individual — i. e., each and every really existing person, every Tom, Dick and Murray — is not the measure of the good society, what is?

Activist Tom Hayden said, " My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine.

The league also said that Mickey Loomis, the Saints ' general manager, was directed to end the program by owner Tom Benson, but didn't.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

As fellow black musician Tom Fletcher said, Hogan was the " first to put on paper the kind of rhythm that was being played by non-reading musicians.

Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg or Tom Pollock, the Jewish heads of MCA and Universal Studios, were unlikely to allow antisemitic content in a film they produced.

In October 1962, Mets official Tom Meany said, " Only a series of blizzards or some other unforeseen trouble might hamper construction.

In 1998, after Island Records released the compilation Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Waits left the label for Epitaph, whose president, Andy Kaulkin, said the label was "... blown away that Tom would even consider us.

His role model is Tom Watson, then IBM chairman, who said in 1958: ' I think there is a world market for about five computers.

According to Charles Greville, Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: " I think it's a damned bore.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.