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Stirchley
10-02-17, 04:53 PM
Apparently, he has been found unconscious & in full cardiac arrest. I feel a migraine coming on with all this bad news.
Derek Vinyard
10-02-17, 04:54 PM
RIP great musician

A big lost once again
ash_is_the_gal
10-02-17, 04:54 PM
today sucks
Yoda
10-02-17, 05:03 PM
Love Tom Petty. :(

RIP.

Favorite Tom Petty song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsC598bja4

(First lines: "Oh baby, don't it feel like heaven right now? Don't it feel like something from a dream?")

Underrated/runner-up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5BJXwNeKsQ
Captain Steel
10-02-17, 05:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF7-rz9nIn4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRa8FDL2ts)
Stirchley
10-02-17, 05:11 PM
Tom was only 66. R.I.P. Saw him once in a great concert with Dylan.
Joel
10-02-17, 05:12 PM
Ah jesus, really? Come the fulk ON!
matt72582
10-02-17, 05:13 PM
...........
Dani8
10-02-17, 05:13 PM
66 is still pretty young. Was he a substance abuser?

Vale.
Miss Vicky
10-02-17, 05:17 PM
Oh, damn. He's been my favorite musician since I was a kid. 1989's Full Moon Fever was the first album I owned from any artist. I've got all his albums and have seen him in concert multiple times. 66 is far too young.

:(
Joel
10-02-17, 05:21 PM
No more Wilbury's, please. Spare the rest.
Stirchley
10-02-17, 05:43 PM
66 is still pretty young. Was he a substance abuser?

Vale.

Just read the Wiki page on him. No mention of drugs.

Interesting to read that seeing The Beatles for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show made him want to join a band. Amazing how many rock stars have said that.
Sexy Celebrity
10-02-17, 05:46 PM
I just read he’s dead.

Stirchley’s post implied he was still alive, but others are saying R.I.P.

He’s dead.
Swan
10-02-17, 05:55 PM
RIP to a rad guy.
Stirchley
10-02-17, 05:55 PM
I just read he’s dead.

Stirchley’s post implied he was still alive, but others are saying R.I.P.

He’s dead.

He died about an hour ago. When I posted my OP, the news was only that he was in cardiac arrest. Next time I came to this thread he had just died.
Dani8
10-02-17, 06:00 PM
He died about an hour ago. When I posted my OP, the news was only that he was in cardiac arrest. Next time I came to this thread he had just died.

He was on life support so you were right.
matt72582
10-02-17, 06:21 PM
I just read that the LAPD apologizes, and that he's still clinging on to life.... Let's hope.
Sexy Celebrity
10-02-17, 06:22 PM
I just read that the LAPD apologizes, and that he's still clinging on to life.... Let's hope.
My goodness.
Sexy Celebrity
10-02-17, 06:27 PM
His Wikipedia page has gone from dead, to alive, to dead again. It’s now on dead.
mark f
10-02-17, 06:32 PM
http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/tom-petty-portrait-1976-billboard-1548.jpg
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2016/02/Tom-Petty.jpg?w=630&h=420&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXkblbJqwn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-F5vuQJjo
R.I.P. (maybe?)
Sexy Celebrity
10-02-17, 06:33 PM
Still alive for the moment.
Sexy Celebrity
10-02-17, 06:34 PM
Just like in Song Tournaments with Miss Vicky, he won’t go away.
Sexy Celebrity
10-02-17, 06:42 PM
Taken off life support, apparently.
Miss Vicky
10-03-17, 01:39 AM
Officially confirmed that he passed away this evening. Heartbreaking.
Sexy Celebrity
10-03-17, 02:15 AM
Officially confirmed that he passed away this evening. Heartbreaking.

Very sorry to know you've lost your icon.
ScarletLion
10-03-17, 05:30 AM
Just read the Wiki page on him. No mention of drugs.


He was a wild child. The book "Dirt" recounts his times on the Road with Motley Crue and Ozzy Ozzbourne. They hoovered up drugs and booze. It's one of the best books I've ever read. Personally I think the lyrics of "Learning to Fly" are about getting high:

I'm learning to fly, around the clouds
But what goes up (learning to fly) must come down

I'm learning to fly (learning to fly), but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing


This is terrible news. He's written so many great ones. My favourite......... What a beautiful song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozgmyx919a4
Miss Vicky
10-03-17, 05:53 AM
Wildflowers is very pretty.

Room at the Top is probably my favorite, though there are so many greats it's hard to say for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQFCF9KESic

Southern Accents is another long time favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECJ6l38mf_A
Tacitus
10-03-17, 05:59 AM
Saw him 3 times. Along with Springsteen, he was mainstream American rock to me, and my favourite track will always be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8

Then there was Full Moon Fever, which was kind of a perfect album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXYl5NrHPb4
Miss Vicky
10-03-17, 06:04 AM
Great choices, Tatty.

I was fortunate enough to see him four times in concert. I wish it could've been more.
Marlon Brando
10-03-17, 07:54 AM
R.I.P.

Petty was one of my all time favorite rock singers. 66 years old, still way to young to go. This has been a terrible year for singers and musicians.
Chypmunk
10-03-17, 08:09 AM
Sigh, another one gone :(
Requiescat In Pace. Tom
I. Rex
10-03-17, 08:21 AM
A brilliant writer and a great guy. Yesterday was truly a terrible day...

Maybe somewhere down the road aways (end of the line)
You'll think of me, wonder where I am these days (end of the line)
mojofilter
10-03-17, 10:51 AM
Sad that Tom's death has been overshadowed by that miserable **** in Vegas who shot up a festival and killed or injured about 600 people.

A true rock legend.

There's a huge list of Tom Petty songs I love. Here are just a few of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLpZWNyM0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFnOfpIJL0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8m5p6V_NPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlBTPITo1I
(I nominated this song a few times in past song tournaments)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0
(His best video in my opinion. Johnny Depp!)
cat_sidhe
10-06-17, 08:08 PM
Preach.
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