The original Heartbreakers lineup performed together for the first time in over two decades at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, where Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers received a Lifetime Achievement Award. A boxed set of early rarities arrives in November.
Twenty years of silence, then a reunion right before a boxed set drops in November. Cute timing. Nobody asked the obvious: who authorized this, and who gets the check? Petty spent a career suing labels over exactly this kind of packaging. Now his band plays the awards show while pre-orders go live. Was the family in the room, or just the lawyers?