Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Summary |
Zanes provides an honest and evocative examination of Petty's music, and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Petty was a kid without a whole lot of promise; rock and roll made it otherwise. His story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us. |
Contents |
1976. Introduction ; Family secrets ; Stranger in the house ; Cowboys and Indians ; Salesmen ; Mud ; Farming ; Chemistry lessons ; Even the losers ; Cordell ; Waiting for Leon ; Punching buttons ; Opening acts ; Chapter eleven ; The album cycle ; Life between the branches below ; The veteran in a new field ; The backing band -- 1987. Gonna leave this world for a while ; Planned collisions ; A boat out at sea ; Full grown boy ; Half of me is ocean, half of me is sky -- 2006. Everything changed, then changed again ; Somewhere under heaven -- 2015. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Subject |
Petty, Tom.
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Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Petty, Tom. (OCoLC)fst00296527
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Rock musicians. (OCoLC)fst01099238
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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ISBN |
9780805099683 (hardcover) |
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0805099689 (hardcover) |
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