![]() So she got high and drank to ease her loneliness and isolation. It was a lonely existence with Tom rarely home. Petty rented a small house in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley and Jane started having babies - two girls - but this wasn't the life that she envisioned. Tom didn't want to, but honored his mother's request to do 'the right thing'.Ĭalifornia was everything he dreamed it would be. Jane insisted they get married before they left Florida. The plan evolved to head for the promised land – Hollywood. Stevie Nicks has not yet issued a statement on the death of her longtime friend Tom Petty.Smoking cigarettes and 'herb,' playing songs and talking about how to make a record demo was a daily ritual with band members. "She came into my life like a rocket, just refusing to go away,'" Petty once said. Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks' friendship lasted for four decades as the two supported one another through divorce, depression, and drug addiction. "Tom looked at me and said, 'We had our times.'" "I pushed on this question, saying to, after he told me they weren't a couple, 'You sure sound like a couple,'" Zanes recalled. "It's probably the most beautiful piece of jewelry a man has ever given me, ever."īut Petty biographer Warren Zanes told Salon he "pushed" the couple question to Tom when interviewing him, and the rock legend's response opened up more questions than answers. It goes with me everywhere," Stevie gushed. ![]() "Tom made me a little platinum sheriff's badge that had 24-karat gold and diamonds across the top and said 'To Our Honorary Heartbreaker, Stevie Nicks.' On the back it says 'To the Only Girl in Our Band.' I keep it on my black velvet top hat. According to Rolling Stone, Stevie once talked about 27 shows she did with Tom while on tour with him in 2006. They became so close that Tom later gave Stevie a memento she would cherish forever. ![]() Petty and Nicks both juggled fame with drug addiction. "Had Tom Petty called me up one day and said, 'If you want to leave Fleetwood Mac to be in the Heartbreakers, there's a place for you,' I might well have done it," Stevie told Rolling Stone. While Stevie Nicks already had her own band with Fleetwood Mac, her devotion to Tom Petty has been well documented. It's about a lot of strange things all mushed into one song." But that song is about Tom Petty, it's about the death of John Lennon. "And I do it every single time I end my set, you know. Tom Petty was also a heavy influence on one of Nicks' most famous solo songs, "Edge of Seventeen," which got its name from a conversation the rock goddess had with Tom's then-wife, Jane. But in those days, nobody trusted that sort of thing and we just kept thinking, 'What does she want from us?'" We didn't quite know whether to like Stevie or not, because we kind of saw this big corporate rock band, Fleetwood Mac, which was wrong, they were actually artistic people. "And it was her mission in life that I should write her a song. "And she was this absolutely stoned-gone, huge fan." "Stevie came to me around '78," Petty said, according to American Songwriter. Some of my best musical memories of her are sitting on the couch and just playing the guitar while she sings." I've known her since 1978 and she's insisted on being in my life. "Have you got a couple of hours? She's a good friend. When asked to summarize his friendship with Stevie Nicks, Petty once described the relationship to the Toronto Sun. Nicks and Petty had a 40-year friendship which was spearheaded by the Fleetwood Mac songstress. And while he was known for his musical collaborations with everyone from Prince to Bob Dylan, nothing was more special than his bond with Stevie Nicks. The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers frontman died of cardiac arrest at age 66, according to the Los Angeles Times. Stevie Nicks is mourning the death of her longtime friend and musical collaborator, Tom Petty.
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