1980s
The Petty Archives

Pop & Rock
By Glen Gore-Smith
Winnipeg Free Press - Wednesday, November 14, 1984

Tom Petty's days as a guitarist are probably over. Petty smashed his left hand when he punched a wall in a fit of temper. Petty needed a four-hour operation, during which doctors put two metal pins directly into the hand. The prognosis isn't good.