Musician Tom Petty dies

Rocker Tom Petty died Monday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles a day after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, Calif., according to spokeswoman Carla Sacks. He was 66. Petty had just completed a tour marking the 40th anniversary of his longtime band the Heartbreakers. Although he intended it to be his last major tour, he told Rolling Stone he didn’t plan to stop making music. The Gainesville, Fla., native began his musical career in the 1960s, and a decade later his music began topping the charts. His most popular songs included “The Waiting,” “You Got Lucky,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “Learning to Fly,” and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” Most of his albums reached either gold or platinum status. But his career had plenty of ups and downs, capped by his struggle with a heroin addiction following the breakup of his 22-year marriage to Jane Benyo in the late 1990s. Petty started his career with a band called Mudcrutch, a collaboration he brought back in 2008. The group released another album in 2016. Petty also released solo albums and joined four other well-known musicians—Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne—to form the Traveling Wilburys. Petty is survived by his second wife, Dana York, his brother Bruce, his daughters Adria and AnnaKim, his stepson Dylan, and a granddaughter.