Unsurprisingly, however, the memories of his Heartbreaker days prove most illuminating, and, catching up with Guitar Player ahead of the memoir's release, Campbell has opened up on what he brought to ...

Mike Campbell was a longtime lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Campbell's memoir, "Heartbreaker," was recently released.

In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville, Fla., cover band called Mudcrutch — played one of his ...

The singer died Monday after suffering a heart attack the previous day Alex Heigl is a former associate editor at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2017. Melody Chiu is an Executive Editorial Director at ...

At the start of 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a struggling band on the brink of something big. In quick succession, they landed a fresh record contract, started writing promising new ...

Mike Campbell was Tom Petty's right-hand man during Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ rich history, and his forthcoming memoir will lift the lid on his fruitful and colorful career in the band.