# Tom Petty

> He wrote songs that sounded like they'd always existed — straightforward, defiant, built to outlast the decade that made them. "Free Fallin'," "I Won't Back Down," "American Girl": the kind of tracks that fill arenas and car radios in equal measure, forty years on.

*American musician*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/tom-petty

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1950-10-20
- **Died:** 2017-10-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Thomas Earl Petty was born October 20, 1950, and grew up to front Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, later joining the Traveling Wilburys and recording solo work that moved more than 80 million records worldwide. The hits came in waves: "American Girl" in 1976, "Refugee" in 1980, "Don't Come Around Here No More" in 1985, then the solo run with "Free Fallin'" and "I Won't Back Down" in 1989. The Heartbreakers entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002; fifteen years later, MusiCares named him Person of the Year for his music and philanthropy. He also voiced Lucky Kleinschmidt on King of the Hill from 2004 to 2009. One week after closing the band's 40th Anniversary Tour, Petty died of an accidental drug overdose on October 2, 2017, at 66.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 81.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.7 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 29.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 44.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 95.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #207
- **Category rank:** #193
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,000,000

## Platforms
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UZMlIwnkgAEDBsw1Rejkn (@2UZMlIwnkgAEDBsw1Rejkn)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/tompetty (@tompetty)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678816/ (@nm0678816)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/tompettyofficial/ (@tompettyofficial)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.tompetty.com/
- **X**: https://x.com/tompetty (@tompetty)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYomLPMwUr1FAXRMGhVfCQ (@@tompetty, 1,000,000 followers)

## Topics
#Musicians, #Singer / Musician, #Singer-Songwriter, #Music Production, #Classical, #Music, #United States, #Americas

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty)
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