sense of hope in them. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born 20 October 1950 ) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Interview With Alan Bangs (1999) 1.2 Rolling Stone