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Renowned rock-star Tom Petty has passed on at the age of 66. The pop star’s manager Tony Dimitriades, said he died of cardiac arrest.
Perry was found in a life-threatening condition at his home in Malibu, Calif, Sunday night after suffering full cardiac arrest.
According to reports, he was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he died on Monday at 11:40 p.m. ET.
Petty was known for being a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
The entertainer had just concluded his 40th anniversary tour with his band, The Heartbreakers, on Sept. 25 in Los Angeles.
Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Fla. He was from what he called the “redneck, hillbilly” part of town.
“It’s an interesting place,” he remarked, “because you can meet almost any kind of person from many walks of life because of the university.
But it’s really surrounded by this kind of very rural kind of people that are — you know, they’re farmers or, you know, tractor drivers or, you know, just all kinds of — game wardens, you name it, you know. So it’s an interesting blend.
My family wasn’t involved in the college, you know. They were more of just your white trash kind of … family.
And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were — you know, passing through.”
After being part of an early band called Mudcrutch, he first came to fame with his own band.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recorded its eponymous debut in 1976, an album that included two songs that became core songs in the rock ‘n’ roll canon: “Breakdown” and “American Girl.”