Title:
Petty : the biography / Warren Zanes.
Author:
Zanes, Warren, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Call Number:
ML410.P3135 Z36 2015
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780805099683
Physical Description:
x, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
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Contents:
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 -- 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 -- 2006. Everything changed, then changed again ; Somewhere under heaven -- 2015.
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