Discover a complete book on the entire life and work of Tom Petty, by Jean Do Bernard, which will interest experts and neophytes.
It’s good to be king: a nice wink in the subtitle of the first biographical work dedicated in France to the late American guitarist Tom Petty. At the height of a necessarily romantic life, for the child born and raised in the American South, in a family with Cherokee origins. Surrounded by trigger-happy rednecks, young Thomas Petty quickly understands that it is better to exchange his guns for 45s. A lover of the Stones and the Beatles, he grabs a guitar… which he will never let go of.
“A good guy,” sums up Stevie Nicks, years later, when she collaborates with him – even if we will ignore here the slightly macho hypothesis according to which she had an affair with Jimmy Iovine to approach the leader of the Heartbreakers. Detailing both the personal upheavals and the genesis of Tom Petty’s pieces, Jean Do Bernard has written a complete book, succeeding in satisfying both neophytes and fans of the man who, as humble as he was gifted, considered glory as a “double-edged sword ”.
Sophie Rosemont
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