To say that yesterday was a bad news day is an understatement.
At virtually every get together I've attended over the years somewhere, somehow, Tom Petty makes it onto the playlist at everybody's house. Simply by playing TP & The Heartbreakers in my home turned two nieces and a nephew onto his music, all of whom are at least 30 years younger than myself. One is 50 years younger.
When I went to put something on last night I was surprised to see how many of his records I own. Pretty much everything he was involved with over the decades. The "T" section in my collection requires a lot of flipping through his stuff to get to the next artist.
Farewell to a great tunesmith. R. I. P.