Tom Petty

The Sully Band & Friends Stage a New Year's Livestream on January 14 at San Diego's Belly Up

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Monday, January 4, 2021

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sully Band, recently named "Best Live Performer" at the 2020 San Diego Music Awards,will stage a live, all-star, virtual fundraising concert on Thursday, January 14 at 7:30 pm at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego.

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  • SAN DIEGO, Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sully Band, recently named "Best Live Performer" at the 2020 San Diego Music Awards,will stage a live, all-star, virtual fundraising concert on Thursday, January 14 at 7:30 pm at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego.
  • This star-studded Sully Band concert will feature the band's regular musicians plus special performances by:
    The Greg Douglass Band, featuring Greg Douglass of the Steve Miller Band who wrote the band's hit single, "Jungle Love."
  • Ron Blair of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, playing with The Farmers, named the "Best Rock Band" at the 2018 San Diego Music Awards.
  • In October, The Sully Band performed a similar livestream event at the Belly Up Tavern and raised $6,500 for the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Louis Bell Named ASCAP Pop Music Songwriter Of The Year; "The Middle" Is Song Of The Year At 36th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards

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Friday, May 17, 2019

Songwriter Emily Warren performed an acoustic version of her Dua Lipa hit "New Rules," also among the year's most performed songs.

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  • Songwriter Emily Warren performed an acoustic version of her Dua Lipa hit "New Rules," also among the year's most performed songs.
  • Previous recipients include Elvis Costello, Annie Lennox, Sir Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, Patti Smith, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young.
  • The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music.
  • Learn more and stay in touch at www.ascap.com , on Twitter and Instagram @ASCAP and on Facebook .

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Video For "For Real" Premieres Today

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The video for "For Real," the latest previously unreleased single to debut from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, is premiering today.

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  • LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The video for "For Real," the latest previously unreleased single to debut from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, is premiering today.
  • The loving video was directed by Tom's daughter, Adria Petty, and features archival footage and photos as well as intimate, behind-the-scenes moments of Tom and the band.
  • Throughout his storied career, Petty did everything with authenticityputting the music and his fans first.
  • Rather than in chronological order, the special cross-label collection was sequenced as a hard-hitting playlist givingthe entirecatalog equal prominence.

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' 'The Best Of Everything' Out Today Via Geffen Records/UMe

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Friday, March 1, 2019

Rather than in chronological order, the special cross-label collection was sequenced as a hard-hitting playlist givingthe entirecatalog equal prominence.

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  • Rather than in chronological order, the special cross-label collection was sequenced as a hard-hitting playlist givingthe entirecatalog equal prominence.
  • Throughout his storied career, Petty did everything with authenticity, putting the music and his fans first.
  • The Best Of Everythingalso features an essay on Petty written especially for this collection by his close friend, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, author and journalist Cameron Crowe.
  • Full Moon Fever features "Free Fallin'," "I Won't Back Down" and "Runnin' Down A Dream," all of which are on The Best Of Everything.

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' Unreleased Song "For Real" Debuts Today

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Friday, February 15, 2019

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- "For Real," another previously unreleased song from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, is debuting today.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- "For Real," another previously unreleased song from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, is debuting today.
  • It is this sentiment that Petty sings about in the poignant and autobiographical song "For Real."
  • "For Real" is featured on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Best Of Everything, due March1 via Geffen Records/UMe as a supplement to last year's critically lauded, career-spanning box set An American Treasure.
  • The 38-track set also includes an additional previously unreleased song: an alternate version of the title track, which restores a never-before heard second verse to the song that was originally recorded for the Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 1985 album, Southern Accents.