◇ image via WikipediaTom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is a Rock act. Their sound grew out of Average White Band, Jeff Lynne, David A. Stewart, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger. 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, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Steve Miller Band and The J. Geils Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Runaways, Beck, Pearl Jam, The Allman Brothers Band and Aaron Neville, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 48 connections around Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, reaching back through Average White Band and forward to The Runaways. 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 Average White Band, Jeff Lynne, David A. Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, shares an orbit with Mudcrutch, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band and Steve Miller Band, went on to shape The Runaways, Beck, Pearl Jam and The Allman Brothers Band. 48 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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