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Rolling Stone Music Now

My Life with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mike Campbell Looks Back

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, author of the great new book Heartbreaker: A Memoir, shares untold stories from his collaborations with Tom Petty and much more in an interview with host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.1

I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now.

1:08.0

Today I'm talking to the author of an essential new music book.

1:12.7

It's called Heartbreaker, a memoir, by Mike Campbell, the legendary guitarist for Tom Petty's band The Heartbreakers. He was also Tom's closest collaborator,

1:18.1

writing the music for some of his biggest songs. Mike toured for a bit with Fleetwood Mac after

1:22.4

Tom's death in 2017, and he's currently the frontman for his own band, The Dirty Knobbs.

1:27.7

Mike, congratulations on the book.

1:29.3

Thank you.

1:30.1

What was the impact for you of going back through all this territory, good times, dark times?

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