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US rock star Tom Petty, famous for classics such as Free Fallin', Refugee and American Girl, has died at the age of 66.
The singer-songwriter passed away on Monday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California, spokeswoman Carla Sacks said.
Petty "died peacefully" at 8:40pm (03:40 GMT onTuesday) "surrounded by family, his bandmates, and friends," a statement from his longtime manager Tony Dimitriades said.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:36AM (4 children)
The guy had a heart attack.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday October 04 2017, @07:30AM (3 children)
Just the time he's eligible for Social Security, too.
Entertainment superstars like Tom Petty live a hard life. Constantly living up to the image of the superstar they are. Always on the move, trying to get things right, trying to keep up with whose using and entrapping you in contracts. Trying to keep a bunch of people who own you satisfied.
You know how we try to guard our privacy... superstars have no privacy at all. No matter where you go, someone is documenting every thing you do, reporting anything interesting to the supermarket rags. Can't even fart without it being reported somewhere.
Tom, you made a lot of people happy while you were here. You did an outstanding job and you will be missed. That's something very few of us can truthfully claim.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 04 2017, @05:12PM
Social security is irrelevant at Tom Petty's level - it would only come into play if he pulled a Willie Daniels, I think Tom was a little more fiscally responsible than that.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:07PM (1 child)
...and, in the process, told some truths that others wouldn't.
"The Last DJ" was about L.A. radio personality Jim Ladd who was still doing Free-Form radio.
Jim's most recent transition was getting fired from KLOS (for being Jim Ladd) where he not being allowed to say goodbye to the folks who had listened to him for years.
Jim found a gig on satellite radio, but, after that maneuver by ever-more-consolidated Lamestream Media with its narrow, boring playlists and cloned formats, it appears that he was the last[1] of the breed on terrestrial radio.
[1] Well, KOCI-LP (Low Power, 42 Watts), while mostly an automated thing, does this a bit via their FCC-allowed Community Radio station.
(Sometimes, their signal gets walked all over by KGB in San Diego.)
KOCI-LP has a live stream, but I really hate everything about their website.
...and, specifically, they don't have a what's-playing-now page like all the grownups do.
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday October 07 2017, @04:06AM
Thanks for the link. Tom sure summed up what's happened to radio as us old timers knew it.
Sure is a different world these days. I guess I'm turning into a rebel as I know it does not have to be the way it is now. These new kids, well they have never seen what we got to see. They have to resort to drugs. And life seems so meaningless. I don't know if I could take being born in the later generation. I feel so frustrated and guilty handing these kids such a heaping plate of excrement, all designed to enrich a few beyond one's wildest imagination, while educating them just to service level, and enslaving them in unpaybackable debt.
This whole thing stinks to high-heaven.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]