Tom Petty Trivia Questions

Petty joined Dylan, Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison in the 1988 supergroup, recording two albums.

While credited as a solo album, Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench both played on it.

Petty co-wrote the track and performed it as a duet with Stevie Nicks. The song was released on her 1981 album Bella Donna and became a hit.

Petty denied this urban legend, saying the song was simply about a girl in a car on a highway, with no tragic backstory.

Tom Petty's first band was The Sundowners (1964), not Mudcrutch. Mudcrutch, formed in 1970, later evolved into the Heartbreakers.

This is false. Petty never changed his legal name; the band name was just his stage moniker.

Petty threatened to title the album 'Eight Ninety-Eight' to protest a proposed price hike, and the label backed down.

The song's lyrics mention Los Angeles landmarks such as Ventura Boulevard and Mulholland Drive, and Petty himself stated it was about LA, not Gainesville.