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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is a Rock act. Their sound grew out of Jeff Lynne, David A. Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger and John Mellencamp. Those roots explain a lot about how Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mudcrutch, John Mellencamp, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, The Cars and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Last of the American Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Sam's Town, Roger McGuinn and Stevie Nicks, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 53 connections around Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, reaching back through Jeff Lynne and forward to Last of the American Girls. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers connections
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers grew out of Jeff Lynne, David A. Stewart, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger, shares an orbit with Mudcrutch, John Mellencamp, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and The Cars, went on to shape Last of the American Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Sam's Town and Roger McGuinn. 53 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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