ROCKER TOM PETTY IS DEAD AT 66

Winchester, VA – They say celebrities go in threes…Last week we saw the passings of Hugh Hefner and Monty Hall. CNN reports that famed rocker Tom Petty passed away in Los Angeles at 8:40pm last night at the age of 66. He had been rushed to the hospital after having been found unconscious in full cardiac arrest in his home in Malibu. With the Heartbreakers, Petty had just finished a summer tour last week giving three performances at the Hollywood Bowl. Petty’s interest in rock music was sparked when he met Elvis Presley at 10. It was watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show which made him want to be in a band, and he dropped out of high school in order to pursue his dream. In addition to singing, he was a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and co-founder of another band—the Traveling Wilburys. In a 2007 interview he said, “Music, as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I know. There is something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart.” Rest in peace.

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