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Boston is all over Tom Petty sideman Mike Campbell’s illuminating new memoir, ‘Heartbreaker’
In a Boston.com Q&A, Tom Petty sideman Campbell talks Boston nights, tours with Dylan, and the Old Boston Garden: “The floor ...
Mike Campbell reveals how he and Tom Petty developed the guitar tandem that defines the Heartbreakers' classic sound
Petty had started out as a bass player, but when he moved to electric the seeds of one of rock’s greatest guitar partnerships ...
Heartbreaker history: Benmont Tench 'can't wait' for return to Tulsa
A founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tench is performing at The Church Studio, where the keyboardist arrived ...
The greatest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, according to Mike Campbell: “It’s so universal”
Mike Campbell, the band's guitarist, picked the greatest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, connecting to fond memories of its creation.
Mike Campbell on writing The Boys of Summer with Don Henley – after Tom Petty passed on it
Mike Campbell may be best known as Tom Petty’s right-hand man in the Heartbreakers, but as the 1980s dawned, the electric ...
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Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell
In what may be the sole expression of explicit ego he ever really displayed during his history with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell has written A Memoir describing his time as guitarist ...
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Mike Campbell on Fleetwood Mac blessings, his guitar obsession and what he learned as a Heartbreaker
Mike Campbell was Tom Petty’s right-hand man ... Campbell wasn’t only the Heartbreakers’ lead guitarist; he was the only band member Petty regularly co-wrote with, and that includes landmark ...