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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Tom Petty, the singer and guitarist whose influential music spanned four decades, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications involving opioids, his family announced Friday.
Source: Washington Post
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(Score: 3, Informative) by rylyeh on Wednesday October 04 2017, @02:12AM (2 children)
Dylan was kind of embarrassing.
Tom and the Heartbreakers were godlike.
His music helped millions - and he never backed down.
Made it with Stevie Nicks too!
A true legend - I will miss him.
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @02:38AM
His music had a very genuine quality to it; you could hear, feel, and smell a couple arguing in a Roadkill Cafe in almost every tune.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:53AM
The last time saw him was with Stevie Winwood in the 2000s (11 June 2008, IIRC).
Winwood came out and played a set. After he did Can't Find My Way Home [youtube.com], I could have gone home happy right then.
But I didn't, and TP & the HBs came out and put on a fabulous show [setlist.fm].
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @02:34AM (4 children)
"died peacefully" at 8:40pm
CBS "News" had declared him dead in the early afternoon.
The family and the hospital and LAPD said that the Fake News outlet didn't get that from any of them.
Other, more responsible, media outlets raked CBS over the coals for their miserable attempt at reporting.
In fact, Petty was taken off the ventilator but his body refused to give up for several hours more.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday October 04 2017, @02:38AM (1 child)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and stuff, but being 59 myself IMHO when you can't find any brain activity just turn everything off, cuz I be gone.
/ might try turning it all on again, can't tell you how often that has worked for me
// But really, don't do me like that
/// No brain, no me, it was fun while it lasted.
Trump has decided to rename California's San Andreas fault. He's calling it Biden's fault.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday October 04 2017, @10:41AM
Indeed. For all practical purposes he died early in the morning at his home. I understand that the family wanted to control the announcement and the narrative but their version bends the truth a little.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday October 04 2017, @02:44AM
100 percent right! They caught #FakeNews @CBS cold! Just like @CNN. 🇺🇸
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @04:54AM
I believe you mean his body wouldn't back down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTXb-ga1fo [youtube.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:32AM
Last night [youtube.com] Tom Petty reached the end of the line [youtube.com].
Mr. Petty wont be waiting [youtube.com] around, in fact he don't come around here no more [youtube.com] as he's headed off into the great wide open [youtube.com].
In a career spanning at least four decades, Petty got lucky [youtube.com] with songs like Here Comes My Girl [youtube.com], Even The Losers [youtube.com], Don't Do Me Like That [youtube.com], Breakdown [youtube.com] and many others.
Having seen Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers live [youtube.com], I can confirm that he was not only a fine musician and songwriter, but an excellent showman as well.
Goodbye Mr. Petty. You will be missed.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(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.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(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]