Rock star Tom Petty has died, his manager Tony Dimitriades announced Monday. He was found in critical condition at his home in Malibu, Calif., Sunday night after suffering full cardiac arrest, as first reported by the website TMZ. Petty was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he died on Monday at 11:40 p.m. ET. Petty was a widely lauded songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was 66 years old.
Petty 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.; as he told Terry Gross on WHYY's Fresh Air in 2006, 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 Mudhutch, 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." The band released two more albums in quick succession: 1978's You're Gonna Get It! which went gold, and 1979's Damn The Torpedoes, which included the group's first Top 10 single, "Don't Do Me Like That," and "Refugee." The title of that 1979 album was an indication of its difficult birth: When Petty's former record label, Shelter, was sold to MCA, Petty was infuriated and declared that he rejected being "bought and sold like a piece of meat." Petty took on the costs of recording Damn The Torpedoes himself — to the point of declaring bankruptcy. After the legal case was settled, Petty and his band released the album on a specially created imprint called Backstreet Records, and the album went to No. 2 on the charts.
you know alky, i gotta tell ya, i just don't know what we would do around here without you copying and pasting news from other sources.
you're a godsend.
i mean, just think of the throngs of people who can't bear to venture out to the internet past this blog. virtual cyber shut-ins.
and what about the folks who set this blog as their home page and have forgotten how to change that? i mean, if there's an affliction that needs to be covered by the americans with disabilities act, it's that one.
i just wanted to take a moment to thank you and recognize you for your efforts, alky.
you are doing yeoman's work, and those who might have saved lives in vegas have nothing over you, alky.
pssst... hey alky. that https thingy? that's called a LINK. there's one of them on every news story on the en-tire interwebs. and when you post it, it gives the source this thing we call "attribution." keeps CH out of trouble and all. .i think you know where i'm going with all this.
It was heart failure. Pneumonia is a side affect of heart failure.
It's a common side effect with a lot of conditions. I'm very aware of that. I had a congested lung and they did a procedure to partially remove it, or I might have gotten pneumonia and your burning desire for the announcement of my death, I didn't die. That was only two days after my liver transplant surgery. Which one more time, that is proof that I'm destined to expose you as a worthless waste of a life.
Robert F. Kennedy University of Cape Town, South Africa N.U.S.A.S. "Day of Affirmation" Speech June 6th, 1966
I came here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America. But I am glad to come here to South Africa. I am already enjoying my visit. I am making an effort to meet and exchange views with people from all walks of life, and all segments of South African opinion, including those who represent the views of the government. Today I am glad to meet with the National Union of South African Students. For a decade, NUSAS has stood and worked for the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-principles which embody the collective hopes of men of good will all around the world. Your work, at home and in international student affairs, has brought great credit to yourselves and to your country. I know the National Student Association in the United States feels a particularly close relationship to NUSAS. And I wish to thank especially Mr. Ian Robertson, who first extended this invitation on behalf of NUSAS, for his kindness to me. It's too bad he can't be with us today. This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society. The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and forest; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm one's membership and allegiance to the body politic-to society-to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our children's future. Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile-family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head -all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer-not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people. And even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming. These are the sacred rights of Western society. These were the essential differences between us and Nazi Germany, as they were between Athens and Persia.
So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are-if a man of forty can claim that privilege-fellow members of the world's largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but for men and women everywhere. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you with yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country I have visited, you are all in many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generations of any of these nations; and that you are determined to build a better future. President Kennedy was speaking to the young people of America, but beyond them to young people everywhere, when he said that "the energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it-and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." And he added, "With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
and your burning desire for the announcement of my death, I didn't die. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
i want you to live to be 102, alky.
you have provided me with countless hours of entertainment, in a special olympics kind of way.
"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
Donald J Trump is the exact opposite of the dream that has made America great. His slogan, "Make America Great Again" is a total rejection of the American dream. He is a hate filled and angry at every aspect of a free society, including the free press.
At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit.
say that out loud in the wrong part of town, and you'll get your ass kicked by antifa, alky.
modern liberalism has turned this concept on it's head. today's liberal believes that the individual is subservient to society, liberal-approved groups, and the state.
you ought to read shit before you post it alky, lest you make yourself look like a fool.
You have provided irrefutable proof that your hatred for yours truly, is evident in approximately 50% of your comments, and yes, you know what I'm talking about.
Nos vemos más tarde, seré capaz de reírse de su obsesión donde "me han proporcionado innumerables horas de entretenimiento, en una forma especial de olimpiadas". Me encanta publicar en español, debido a su odio por la demografía hispana en la Casa Blanca y en su vacío.
alky, one of the things that pisses me off to no end when it comes to you liberals is how you have cheapened certain words in the english language through overuse, out of disrespect to it's meaning, or simply because you refuse to learn the definition.
words like "racism" and "fascism" and yes, "hate."
i know i've explained this to you before, but for your benefit i'll give it one more shot -
to me, hatred is a special emotion, one that requires effort and thought, and is therefore reserved for "special" individuals. i can count the number of people i hate on one hand, and have fingers left over. the list is not long. but it's sincere.
now then, and i know that this is going to come as a major disappointment, but you just ain't on the list, alky. you ain't even close. in fact, i don't think there's anything that you could do at your advanced age that would earn you a spot on the list.
oh, and just so you know, 0linsky ain't on my list either. he's a piece of shit to be sure, and i disagreed with 99.998% of his agenda. he hurt people, in some cases really badly. but no, he didn't make the list either. at this point i'd just like him and his lard-assed wife to go away.
I read it. You as usual, take a line out of context. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ok, oh ye of shriveling intellect, please enlighten me, and provide the proper context.
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Dayum!!!!!!!!A great heartbreak!!!
Rock star Tom Petty has died, his manager Tony Dimitriades announced Monday. He was found in critical condition at his home in Malibu, Calif., Sunday night after suffering full cardiac arrest, as first reported by the website TMZ. Petty was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he died on Monday at 11:40 p.m. ET. Petty was a widely lauded songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was 66 years old.
Petty 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.; as he told Terry Gross on WHYY's Fresh Air in 2006, 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 Mudhutch, 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." The band released two more albums in quick succession: 1978's You're Gonna Get It! which went gold, and 1979's Damn The Torpedoes, which included the group's first Top 10 single, "Don't Do Me Like That," and "Refugee." The title of that 1979 album was an indication of its difficult birth: When Petty's former record label, Shelter, was sold to MCA, Petty was infuriated and declared that he rejected being "bought and sold like a piece of meat." Petty took on the costs of recording Damn The Torpedoes himself — to the point of declaring bankruptcy. After the legal case was settled, Petty and his band released the album on a specially created imprint called Backstreet Records, and the album went to No. 2 on the charts.
you know alky, i gotta tell ya, i just don't know what we would do around here without you copying and pasting news from other sources.
you're a godsend.
i mean, just think of the throngs of people who can't bear to venture out to the internet past this blog. virtual cyber shut-ins.
and what about the folks who set this blog as their home page and have forgotten how to change that? i mean, if there's an affliction that needs to be covered by the americans with disabilities act, it's that one.
i just wanted to take a moment to thank you and recognize you for your efforts, alky.
you are doing yeoman's work, and those who might have saved lives in vegas have nothing over you, alky.
you're one of the unsung hero's of the interwebs.
take a bow, alky. take a bow.
btw, according to paul krugman, it was cholera that killed tom petty. not a heart attack.
Hilarious.
Damn you are a funny guy, unlike ever liberal.
you know, i don't know about you guys, but personally i am getting goddamn sick and fucking tired of all this winning. just like trump said i would.
Stocks close at record highs to begin the fourth quarter; Dow jumps 152 points
Stocks kicked off the fourth quarter on a high note, with the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq closing at record highs.
Gains in health care and financials helped lift the major indexes higher.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/us-stocks-fourth-quarter-trump.html
pssst... hey alky. that https thingy? that's called a LINK. there's one of them on every news story on the en-tire interwebs. and when you post it, it gives the source this thing we call "attribution." keeps CH out of trouble and all. .i think you know where i'm going with all this.
links. get some alky!
rathole posted.....
you know alky, i gotta tell ya, i just don't know what we would do around here without you copying and pasting news from other sources.
Ya know rathole....too bad you weren't in Vegas enjoying the show.....I don't know or care what the world would do without your bigotry and stupidity
Petty was one of best still love, Damn the Torpedoes
And he brought Grohl back after Cobain, which gave us the Foo Fighters
It was heart failure. Pneumonia is a side affect of heart failure.
It's a common side effect with a lot of conditions. I'm very aware of that. I had a congested lung and they did a procedure to partially remove it, or I might have gotten pneumonia and your burning desire for the announcement of my death, I didn't die. That was only two days after my liver transplant surgery. Which one more time, that is proof that I'm destined to expose you as a worthless waste of a life.
https://youtu.be/WHXsoCnR7s4
Trump is against every aspect of this speech.
Robert F. Kennedy
University of Cape Town, South Africa
N.U.S.A.S. "Day of Affirmation" Speech June 6th, 1966
I came here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once imported slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America.
But I am glad to come here to South Africa. I am already enjoying my visit. I am making an effort to meet and exchange views with people from all walks of life, and all segments of South African opinion, including those who represent the views of the government. Today I am glad to meet with the National Union of South African Students. For a decade, NUSAS has stood and worked for the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-principles which embody the collective hopes of men of good will all around the world.
Your work, at home and in international student affairs, has brought great credit to yourselves and to your country. I know the National Student Association in the United States feels a particularly close relationship to NUSAS. And I wish to thank especially Mr. Ian Robertson, who first extended this invitation on behalf of NUSAS, for his kindness to me. It's too bad he can't be with us today.
This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.
The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and forest; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm one's membership and allegiance to the body politic-to society-to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our children's future.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. Everything that makes man's life worthwhile-family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head -all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer-not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
And even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.
These are the sacred rights of Western society. These were the essential differences between us and Nazi Germany, as they were between Athens and Persia.
http://www.rfksafilm.org/html/speeches/unicape.php
So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are-if a man of forty can claim that privilege-fellow members of the world's largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but for men and women everywhere. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you with yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country I have visited, you are all in many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generations of any of these nations; and that you are determined to build a better future. President Kennedy was speaking to the young people of America, but beyond them to young people everywhere, when he said that "the energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it-and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."
And he added, "With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
and your burning desire for the announcement of my death, I didn't die.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
i want you to live to be 102, alky.
you have provided me with countless hours of entertainment, in a special olympics kind of way.
"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
Donald J Trump is the exact opposite of the dream that has made America great. His slogan, "Make America Great Again" is a total rejection of the American dream. He is a hate filled and angry at every aspect of a free society, including the free press.
At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
say that out loud in the wrong part of town, and you'll get your ass kicked by antifa, alky.
modern liberalism has turned this concept on it's head. today's liberal believes that the individual is subservient to society, liberal-approved groups, and the state.
you ought to read shit before you post it alky, lest you make yourself look like a fool.
You have provided irrefutable proof that your hatred for yours truly, is evident in approximately 50% of your comments, and yes, you know what I'm talking about.
I read it. You as usual, take a line out of context.
You are an intellectual midget.
Obsession Disorder defined.
you have provided me with countless hours of entertainment, in a special olympics kind of way.
racist rodent bigot, aka, rrb.
Nos vemos más tarde, seré capaz de reírse de su obsesión donde "me han proporcionado innumerables horas de entretenimiento, en una forma especial de olimpiadas". Me encanta publicar en español, debido a su odio por la demografía hispana en la Casa Blanca y en su vacío.
alky, one of the things that pisses me off to no end when it comes to you liberals is how you have cheapened certain words in the english language through overuse, out of disrespect to it's meaning, or simply because you refuse to learn the definition.
words like "racism" and "fascism" and yes, "hate."
i know i've explained this to you before, but for your benefit i'll give it one more shot -
to me, hatred is a special emotion, one that requires effort and thought, and is therefore reserved for "special" individuals. i can count the number of people i hate on one hand, and have fingers left over. the list is not long. but it's sincere.
now then, and i know that this is going to come as a major disappointment, but you just ain't on the list, alky. you ain't even close. in fact, i don't think there's anything that you could do at your advanced age that would earn you a spot on the list.
oh, and just so you know, 0linsky ain't on my list either. he's a piece of shit to be sure, and i disagreed with 99.998% of his agenda. he hurt people, in some cases really badly. but no, he didn't make the list either. at this point i'd just like him and his lard-assed wife to go away.
I read it. You as usual, take a line out of context.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ok, oh ye of shriveling intellect, please enlighten me, and provide the proper context.
((((Crickets))))
HB is not an independent thinker. Just queen of cunt-n-paste.
rat hole posted...
alky, one of the things that pisses me off to no end when it comes to you liberals is how you have cheapened certain words
You mean like "warmest" condolences.....rat hole??? What a stupid thing to say, but its okay since you can't think.
And isn't kneeling an act of respect?????? Or have you fallen for trumps BS?
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