Tom Petty consistently crossed over to the pop charts in his heyday. These five songs were his biggest American hits.

It's now over six years since we lost Tom Petty. The American icon suffered a cardiac arrest and died on the 2nd of October 2017, having contributed far more than his fair share to the American ...

This track from Hypnotic Eye was one of Tom Petty’s very last songs. Surprisingly, it didn’t have the vibe of a “final” track, and the 2014 album was also notably fresh for a band that had been around ...

Tom Petty would begin an interesting three-pronged career resurgence not long after the 21st Century got underway. He was also incredibly prolific: When he died in 2017, he’d already released three ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK DOWN ...

Tom Petty wrote dozens of hit songs over the course of his four-decade career as frontman of the Heartbreakers, but not all of them impressed his bandmates. At least not right away. Such was the case ...

Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks recorded duets in 1981. Petty's bandmates weren't happy that Nicks got one of them.

Tom Petty’s “American Girl” debuts at No. 22 on Billboard’s Rock Streaming Songs chart, marking his first new hit on the tally since his 2017 passing. NEWPORT, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 22: Tom Petty of ...

Tom Petty thought he was just making another solo album. Instead he ended up performing open-heart surgery on himself, ...

Tom Petty is still leaving a positive impact on the world. The daughter of the late rock legend took to Instagram ahead of ...

Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks were some of the biggest artists of their generation. They were also big fans of one another. Nicks, in particular, was a massive fan of Petty and the Heartbreakers, and she ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the first year they were eligible, in 2002. As a member of the band the Traveling Wilburys, from '88 to '90, Petty ...