Petty
Subtitle: the biography
By: Warren Zanes
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780805099683; 9781250105196
Subjects: Rock musicians; Biography
Description: Zanes provides an honest and evocative examination of Petty's music, and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Petty was a kid without a whole lot of promise; rock and roll made it otherwise. His story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1976. Introduction ; Family secrets ; Stranger in the house ; Cowboys and Indians ; Salesmen ; Mud ; Farming ; Chemistry lessons ; Even the losers ; Cordell ; Waiting for Leon ; Punching buttons ; Opening acts ; Chapter eleven ; The album cycle ; Life between the branches below ; The veteran in a new field ; The backing band; title: 1987. Gonna leave this world for a while ; Planned collisions ; A boat out at sea ; Full grown boy ; Half of me is ocean, half of me is sky; title: 2006. Everything changed, then changed again ; Somewhere under heaven; title: 2015.