  Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers formed in early 70's with Tom
Petty, Mike Cambell and Benmont Tench
performing as 'Mudcrutch' in Florida. After
releasing 1 single "Depot Street"
on Shelter Records in 1974, the trio went
their separate ways and regrouped a year
later adding Ron Blair and Stan Lynch and
naming themselves Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers.
 Petty released Tom
Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Petty released You're
Gonna Get It.
You're
Gonna Get It was certified gold.
 Petty released Damn
The Torpedoes.
 # 39
Singles Artist of the Year
Petty hit the Top 10 with "Don't Do Me
Like That."
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Refuge."
Damn
The Torpedoes was certified platinum.
 Petty hit the Top 40 with "Here Comes My Girl."
 # 52
Singles Artist of the Year
Bass player Ron Blair was
replaced with Howie Epstein.
 Petty released Hard
Promises.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "The Waiting."
Hard
Promises was certified gold.
Petty hit the Top 40 helping out
Stevie Nicks with "Stop
Draggin' My Heart Around."
Hard
Promises was certified
platinum.
 # 160
Singles Artist of the Year
 Petty released Long
After Dark.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "You Got Lucky."
 # 59
Singles Artist of the Year
Long
After Dark was certified gold.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Change Of Heart."
Damn
The Torpedoes was certified 2x platinum.
 # 64
Singles Artist of the Year
 Petty released Southern
Accents.
Southern
Accents was certified gold.
Southern
Accents was certified
platinum.
The video for "Don't Come
Around Here No More" won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Special Effects (Tony Mitchell, Kathy
Dougherty & Peter Cohen) and was
nominated for Video of the Year, Best Direction, Viewer's Choice, and Best Concept Video.
 # 180
Singles Artist of the Year
 Petty released the live LP Pack
Up The Plantation: Live!
Petty began touring with Bob
Dylan.
 # 135
Singles Artist of the Year
Petty released Let
Me Up (I've Had Enough).
 Let
Me Up (I've Had Enough) was certified gold.
Tom
Petty & The Heartbreakers was certified gold.
Petty, George
Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne,
and Bob
Dylan formed the Traveling
Wiburys and released The
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1.
 # 26
Singles Artist of the Year
 Petty released Full
Moon Fever - his 1st solo LP.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "I Won't Back Down."
Full
Moon Fever was certified gold.
Full
Moon Fever was certified platinum.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Runnin' Down A Dream."
Full
Moon Fever was certified 2x platinum.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Free Fallin'."
 # 76
Singles Artist of the Year
Petty hit the Top 10 with "Free Fallin'."
 Petty was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (Full
Moon Fever) and Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male ("Free Fallin'"). The category also
included Petty's collaboration with the Traveling
Wilburys (Traveling
Wilburys, Volume 1) which won for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group.
Full
Moon Fever was certified 3x platinum.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "A Face In The Crowd."
The Traveling Wiburys
released their 2nd LP The
Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 3.
 # 141
Singles Artist of the Year
 Petty released Into
The Great Wide Open.
Into
The Great Wide Open was certified gold.
Into
The Great Wide Open was certified
platinum.
Petty was nominated for 2 Grammy
Awards for Best Rock Song (songwriter) and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("Into The Great Wide
Open").
The video for "Into The
Great Wide Open" was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Male Video.
Rolling
Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" included "Don't
Come Around Here No More" at # 14.
 Petty released Greatest
Hits.
Petty topped the Billboard Album
Rock Tracks chart for 2 weeks with "Mary Jane's Last Dance."
 # 42
Singles Artist of the Year
Greatest
Hits was certified platinum.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Mary Jane's Last Dance."
Petty was was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("My Back Pages" with
Bob
Dylan, Roger McGuinn,
Neil Young, Eric
Clapton, George
Harrison).
Petty hit the Top 10 with "Mary Jane's Last Dance."
Greatest
Hits was certified 2x platinum.
Petty won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Male Video ("Mary Jane's Last Dance").
Greatest
Hits was certified 3x platinum.
Drummer Stan Lynch was replaced
by Steve Ferrone.
 Petty released Wildflowers.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "You Don't Know How It
Feels."
Petty topped the Billboard Album
Rock Tracks chart for a week with "You Don't Know How It
Feels."
 # 31
Singles Artist of the Year
Petty hit the Top 10 with "You Don't Know How It
Feels."
Wildflowers was certified 2x
platinum.
Greatest
Hits was certified 4x platinum.
Petty hit the Top 40 with
"It's Good To Be King."
Wildflowers was certified 3x
platinum.
Petty won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Male Video ("You Don't Know How It
Feels").
 Petty released the 6-CD box set Playback.
 # 62
Singles Artist of the Year
Playback was certified gold.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Waiting For Tonight."
Petty won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance -
Male
("You Don't Know How It
Feels")
and was nominated for Best Rock Album (Wildflowers).
 Petty released the She's
The One soundtrack.
Petty hit the Top 40 with "Walls."
Greatest
Hits was certified 6x platinum.
Petty hit the Top 10 with "Walls."
The She's
The One soundtrack was
certified gold.
 Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500
Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes
"American Girl."
Ranked # 43 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 40 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
Petty released the track
"Free Girl Now" free on the
Internet but later agreed with his record
company and pulled the track off MP3.com. A
spokesman for Petty's label said the posting
of the song on the Internet would set "a
bad precedent."
 Petty released Echo.
Greatest
Hits was certified 8x platinum.
Echo was certified gold.
MTV: 100
Greatest Videos Ever Made includes
"Don't Come Around Here No More" at
# 85.
Petty was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song ("Room At The
Top") and Best Rock Album (Echo).
 Petty released Anthology:
Through The Years.
Greatest
Hits was certified 9x platinum, Full
Moon Fever was certified 5x platinum, and Into
The Great Wide Open was certified 2x
platinum.
Rolling Stone
& MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs includes "Free Fallin'" at # 72.
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