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Did You Know...

...that Tom Petty met Phil Everly while picking his daughter up from school?

...that Tom Petty shortened his name because "Tommy Petty" didn't look right on the record?

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

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"High school was the most bitter experience of my life."

- Tom Petty