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Since 1976, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have already been among America’s finest rock and roll & roll rings ever, merging the calling guitars from the Byrds using the gritty rhythmic travel from the Rolling Rocks. Petty’s stories of American losers and dreamers had been simple and immediate, but emotionally …

Upon the discharge of the first album in the later ’70s, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were shoehorned in to the punk/new wave motion by some observers who found over the tough, vibrant energy from the group’s mixture of Byrds riffs and Stonesy swagger. In ways, the categorization produced sense. …