(C) 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.TomPetty LearningToFly Remastered Vevo Rock Official. Petty was laid to rest in a private funeral in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Oct. Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, died Monday. Musician Tom Petty died of an accidental drug overdose of several medications, a statement from his family, posted on, and a news release from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. REMASTERED IN HDMusic video by Tom Petty performing Learning To Fly. Like most rock musicians who came up in the 1960s and ’70s, Petty experimented with drugs and alcohol - marijuana is prominent in the photos from his and the Heartbreakers’ 1976 debut album, and he told biographer Warren Zanes that he’d faced challenges with cocaine use (particularly in the 1980s), alcohol and, in the wake of his 1996 divorce from Jane Benyo, heroin. “He was extremely proud of that achievement in the days before he passed.” He was taken to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died at 8:40 pm PDT that evening.
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On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the. Petty was found unconscious at his home, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest, early in the morning of October 2, 2017. Tom Petty died at the age of 66 on Monday.
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“On a positive note we now know for certain he went painlessly and beautifully exhausted after doing what he loved the most, for one last time, performing live with his unmatchable rock band for his loyal fans on the biggest tour of his 40 plus year career,” it concludes. Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, more music royalty react to Tom Pettys death. “On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,” the statement went on. In their statement, Petty’s family named a litany of health problems the musician faced, “including emphysema, knee problems and most significantly a fractured hip.” The hip injury worsened, the family explained, while Petty was on his most recent tour. However, he could not be revived and died hours later. 2 and was taken to the UCLA Medical Center, where he was placed on life support. Petty was found at his unresponsive at his Malibu home on Oct. The coroner’s report lists Petty’s official cause of death as “multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity.” Tom Petty Dies at 66 By Chris Morris Richard Isaac/REX/Shutterstock Tom Petty, whose Florida-bred quintet the Heartbreakers was one of the defining arena-rock acts of the 1970s with hits like.