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Tom Petty News - October 2004
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October 23, 2004
Conversations With Tom Petty
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 21: Tom Petty—long seen as one of the great songwriters of American rock ‘n’ roll as well as one of the key standard bearers of integrity in the music business—has signed a publishing contract with Omnibus Press. The imprint will release the first authorized book to focus solely on the life and work of the man responsible for some of the most memorable rock anthems of our generation, including: “American Girl,” “Breakdown,” “Refugee,” “The Waiting,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “Free Fallin’,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” and many others. He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and his work with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, as well as his solo albums and those with the Traveling Wilburys, have been critically acclaimed the world over and have earned numerous Platinum status awards from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as Grammys and other major awards.
According to Andrea Rotondo, acquisitions editor for Omnibus, “The aptly titled, Conversations With Tom Petty, is being written by Paul Zollo. Tom and Paul are in the middle of a series of in-depth discussions about Tom’s career, with special focus on his songwriting. The conversations will be reprinted with little or no editorial comment and will therefore represent a unique perspective on Tom’s entire career. Omnibus plans to release the book in time for the 2005 holiday season and the band’s 30th anniversary in 2006. Fans will revel in rare photographs and a first-hand account of Tom’s unprecedented career.”
“For Paul Zollo’s part in this project, he brings the unique combination of a songwriter and journalist,” said Rotondo. “He’s interviewed the world’s most-gifted songwriters and is senior editor of American Songwriter magazine. Most importantly, Paul is a long-time admirer of Petty’s work. The result of Paul’s insight will be an important historic dissertation on one of rock’s leading figures.” Zollo’s most recent book is Songwriters on Songwriting, which includes a series of interviews with over 60 songsmiths including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Carole King, Frank Zappa, and Neil Young.
Conversations With Tom Petty will be published in November 2005.
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Thanks for the music! Yeah, I know it's not till the 20th, but the site is f$#@in' dedicated to the guy!
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October 11, 2004
Tom Petty Responds to Accusations
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STUDIO CITY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/11/2004 -- Tom Petty responded to the recent suit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against him and KLOS-FM disc jockey Jim Ladd over Petty's composition, "The Last DJ," by vigorously denying the accusations in the suit.
Tony Dimitriades, Petty's longtime manager, says, "The lawsuit, which does not even allege that the songs
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have the same or similar words or music, will be strongly defended. The allegation that Tom Petty and Jim Ladd somehow conspired to rob the plaintiff of a business opportunity is both ludicrous and insulting."
Tom Petty, long seen as one of the key standard bearers of integrity in the music business, not only believes the suit is completely without merit, but also stretches the limits of credulity. He says, "My song, 'The Last DJ,' was written completely without any outside influence. It is a wholly original composition. Claiming that Jim Ladd ever gave me another piece of music or discussed the plaintiff or his song with me in any way whatsoever is a total falsehood. Nothing of the kind ever happened. I write my own music, and if I collaborate with anyone, I always share the credit. It's been that way since I began writing thirty years ago, and it will always be that way. That's the way I work.
"To this date, I have never heard the recording the lawsuit claims influenced my song. The plaintiff is accusing me of stealing. I do not take kindly to such accusations, as the plaintiff and his attorney-for-hire will find out."
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October 7, 2004
Tom Petty / KLOS Sued -
THIS CRAP IS WHY TOM CAN'T READ HIS FAN MAIL!!!
Tom Petty, LA Radio Station Sued Over Album Idea
LOS ANGELES -- A songwriter claiming his ideas were stolen filed a $4.5 million suit Wednesday against rock star Tom Petty, KLOS-FM Radio and longtime disc jockey Jim Ladd.
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The suit alleges the ideas for Petty's 2002 song and album "The Last DJ" did not belong to the singer.
A message left with the station's legal department was not immediately returned, and a representative for Petty couldn't be located for comment.
Plaintiff Jim Wagner claims he sent Ladd a "demo" recording of a song he wrote about the disc jockey entitled "The Last Great Radio DJ" in 2000 and that Ladd requested to use it as the theme song on his nightly radio show.
According to the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Wagner was "thrilled" and "readily agreed to the request without even requesting any form of compensation."
When Wagner and Ladd agreed the song would be used on the show, "there was implied both in-fact and by law" that the songwriter would be compensated if the song was used in any way other than as the theme song, the suit states.
But the following year, Wagner claims Ladd gave Petty the "demo" and that the rocker "promptly took the idea, theme, title, and overall 'feel' of the song and wrote and recorded his 'version' of the song, which he entitled 'The Last DJ.'"
The song was released by Warner Bros. that October, leaving the commercial value of Wagner's song "dead," the suit states.
The songwriter claims he would have earned at least $1.5 million from the exploitation of the song. He's asking for exemplary damages of $4.5 million.
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played American Girl, The Waiting, Rebels and Refugee... In that order as a matter of fact... But only American Girl and Refugee will be on the DVD.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was cool at the time because MTV was cool at the time. They had two venues, one at Wembley in London and the other in Philly? And I think it went on for six days or something (joking, well, it felt like it!) I remember sitting through hours of crap from bands you haven't heard from since to catch Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the over anticipated "Zeppelin reunion." None of Zeppelin's set made the DVD thank god. Seriously though, with something like this, why not just release the whole damn thing? If you want to see the whole setlist, you can go to Bono's errr Bob Geldof's (sometimes I think they're the same person!) www.bobgeldof.info. Geldof must've given the money from Live Aid to the people of Africa like he said! 'Cause he sure didn't use it on a web designer! Loved the Boomtown Rats and Geldof as Pink in the Wall, but man, quit whining and play some music!
Petty Theft - I got this email today from Bob Wood of the band Petty Theft. If you don't know, Petty Theft is a Heartbreaker tribute band. They've got a show coming up on October 16th - 9:30, Leo's Bar and Grill 201 E. Romeo, Romeoville. If you live near there, go check them out! If you know where Romeoville actually is, please email me and tell me! I'm pretty sure it's not near Atlanta, so I checked out their site and I recommend you do the same! It's www.pettytheft.net. They have a great video on the site of them doing "Listen to Her Heart." A very true to the original version I might add. VERY respectful. I liked that.
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