Tom Petty has quietly become the king of college football music

Let’s just finish this thing off and call him The King period.

 

Next year will probably be a different artist.
Anybody remember Big & Rich's "Comin to yo Citayyy?"

 

29 Petty covers on Carl Hiassen's Bad Monkey Apple TV series. Love Stephen Marley's version of “You Don’t Know How It Feels”.

 

Love it! Petty would be proud.

 

His estate is clearly licensing the hell out of his catalogue right now, something I doubt he’d have agreed to if he were still alive.

 

I wish he were still here to be his live performance involved in it.

 

He would have agreed, but certainly would have refused the rights to deny based on who the request came from.

 

I still can't believe he's gone.

 

He wrote a song about that.

 

Really wish he would've gotten that hip operation earlier and not needed those serious drugs (if this was the case for self-medication).

On January 19, 2018, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced that Petty's death was due to an "accidental overdose" stating "multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity", a combination of fentanyl, oxycodone, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl (all opioids); temazepam and alprazolam (both benzodiazepines); and citalopram (an antidepressant). In a statement on his website, Petty's wife and daughter said he had a number of medical problems, including emphysema, knee difficulties "and most significantly a fractured hip". He was prescribed pain medication for these problems and informed on the day of his death that his hip injury had worsened. The statement read, "[it] is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his overuse of medication.[..] We feel confident that this was, as the coroner found, an unfortunate accident."

On September 23, 2018, Petty's widow Dana gave an interview to Billboard saying that Petty put off hip surgery his doctors had recommended for some time. "He'd had it in mind it was his last tour and he owed it to his long-time crew, from decades some of them, and his fans." Dana said that Petty was in a good mood the day before his death: "He had those three shows in L.A. Never had he been so proud of himself, so happy, so looking forward to the future—and then he's gone."[96]

 

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