Tom Petty: US Rock Star Dies Aged 66.
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.
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.
"On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend, Tom Petty," Dimitriades said in the statement.
Petty performing with his band, The Heartbreakers, during halftime of the NFL's Super Bowl in 2008.
Petty and his longtime band the Heartbreakers had recently completed a 40th anniversary tour, one he hinted would be their last.
History.
"I'm thinking it may be the last trip around the country," Petty told Rolling Stone last year.
"We're all on the backside of our 60s. I have a granddaughter now I'd like to see as much as I can. I don't want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid, that's a lot of time."
Usually backed by the Heartbreakers, Petty broke through in the 1970s and went on to sell more than 80 million records.
Heartbreakers in 2002, praised them as "durable, resourceful, hard-working, likeable and unpretentious".
"It's sort of the classic theme of a lot of the work I've done," he told The Associated Press in 1989. "I think faith is very important just to get through life. I think it's really important that you believe in yourself, first of all. It's a very hard to thing to come by. But when you get it, it's invaluable."
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.
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.
"On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend, Tom Petty," Dimitriades said in the statement.
Petty performing with his band, The Heartbreakers, during halftime of the NFL's Super Bowl in 2008.
Petty and his longtime band the Heartbreakers had recently completed a 40th anniversary tour, one he hinted would be their last.
History.
"I'm thinking it may be the last trip around the country," Petty told Rolling Stone last year.
"We're all on the backside of our 60s. I have a granddaughter now I'd like to see as much as I can. I don't want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid, that's a lot of time."
Usually backed by the Heartbreakers, Petty broke through in the 1970s and went on to sell more than 80 million records.
Heartbreakers in 2002, praised them as "durable, resourceful, hard-working, likeable and unpretentious".
"It's sort of the classic theme of a lot of the work I've done," he told The Associated Press in 1989. "I think faith is very important just to get through life. I think it's really important that you believe in yourself, first of all. It's a very hard to thing to come by. But when you get it, it's invaluable."
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