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Did You Know...

...that Mike Campbell was invited to play guitar on the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care"?

...that after leaving the Heartbreakers in the early 1980s, Ron Blair ran a swimwear shop?

...that Tom Petty once forgot the words to one of his own hits?

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"For too long the kids have had to listen to rock music handed down to them by their older brothers and sisters. They've never had any rock and roll bands they could call their own."

- Tom Petty