Petty biography review
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Book Review: Petty &#; The Biography
Several books have been written about Tom Petty, but this one is a little different in that it was written at Petty’s own behest and apparently has his seal of approval. Not because it paints him in some holy rock god light, but because it tells the truth, the way his songs always have. Written by former Del Fuegos member Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography includes a cast that has been a part of Petty’s rock ‘n’ roll circus for some 50 years, some of whom went on to great career heights and some who didn’t get out alive.
From tales of the fractured Florida childhood that shaped him, to stories of tour tensions and rock-star fisticuffs, to the revelation of Petty’s own heroin addiction and life-threatening depression, there’s (mostly) never a dull moment here. The book does a great job of painting a picture of how hard, almost impossible, it is to juggle the responsibilities of a guy in Petty’s boots. Leading a band and artfully dealing wi
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Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes
Narrator:Warren Zanes
Published byAudible Studios on månad 15,
Genres:Biography, Nonfiction
Length: 13 hours 57 minutes
Format:Audio, Audiobook
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An exhilarating and något privat eller personligt account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, bygd an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty
No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that fryst vatten as honest and evocative of Petty’s music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his grupp helped to write.
Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise. From meeting Elvis, to seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, to producing Del Shannon, backing Bob Dylan, putting together a band with George Harrison, Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne, maki
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Write Biographies
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tom Petty’s music saved my life. For all his 40 years keeping a band mostly together in a music industry that’s digging itself a deeper hole by the minute, there really isn’t a lot of good secondary source material on Petty. Really, there are only two places a serious fan can go for a serious inside look: Peter Bogdanovich’s four hour documentary, Runnin’ Down a Dream, and Paul Zollo’s thorough and straight interview collection, Conversations with Tom Petty.
The primary asset of both is that they capture the band leader by using his own words. Indeed, these are direct quotation endeavors, and though of course the other band members are in that orbit and saying their various says, Petty’s voice rings true in both documents. A lot of people don’t know that the Bogdanovich documentary also resulted in a companion book of a little over pages that is a solid cross-section of stuff from the fil