"It's a strange to say out loud, but I always felt destined to do this," Tom Petty told Rolling Stone's David Fricke in 2009. "From a very young age I felt this was going to happen to me." From his early days as a hard-jangling realist amidst the fluff-addled Seventies, Tom Petty was always one of rock's most enduring
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