Tom petty biography book review

ByPatti Alivention

Tom Petty is one of those musicians I greatly admired. Although I say Springsteen was the soundtrack to my life, many other musicians added songs that were important to me and that I listened to over and over; musicians such as John “Cougar” Mellencamp, Billy Joel, and Tom Petty contributed quite a bit to that soundtrack.

In his biography of Tom Petty, author Warren Zanes takes the reader along on the course of Petty’s life up until about five years before his death.

It’s an unusual life in many ways and I came away with a better understanding of him not only as a musician but as a human being.

Petty was born and grew up in Gainesville, Florida. His background was most definitely unusual, with a Native American grandmother that had to be hidden away from the local racists.

He had a troubled relationship with his own father, and was in denial about how his mother suffere