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Did You Know...

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

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

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

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"But people can also give up on their dreams because they get sidetracked. They get rich or get famous or whatever it was they thought was going to bring them happiness, and they find it's not everything they thought. People sometimes have the wrong dreams."

- Tom Petty