After spending more than 40 years riding shotgun alongside Tom Petty with the Heartbreakers, guitarist Mike Campbell is feeling more and more comfortable as the frontman of his own band. And his time ...

On March 18, 2025, the day Mike Campbell’s memoir Heartbreaker came out, he posted the opening sentence of the book on his Instagram account: “You don’t know about me without having heard a ...

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 ...

Campbell’s revelation comes in a video Fender has shared as it rolls out two tributes to the Red Dog: the Stories Collection Mike Campbell "Red Dog" Telecaster ($3,499.99) and the Fender Custom ...

Mike Campbell was the greatest right-hand man Tom Petty could’ve hoped to find, a brilliant lead guitarist who co-wrote such Heartbreakers classics as “Refugee,” “Here Comes My Girl ...

Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs perform on stage at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. He couldn't wait to get on stage again, he says. It's in his blood.

Mike Campbell and Tom Petty of Tom Petty perform with the Heartbreakers in the late 1970s. Campbell is playing the rare 1950 Fender Broadcaster he purchased for $600 in 1976.. ...

Mike Campbell recalls his conversation with Tom Petty after he’d sent him the songs he’d written for his side project. Ben Rogerson. Thu, October 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM UTC. 2 min read.

Mike Campbell and Tom Petty perform in 2013. He added, "There was no second thoughts or reservations about going out on tour. In fact, the last conversation I had with Tom about it, ...

Mike Campbell explains how a lifelong connection with Tom Petty was forged in a matter of days – and the guitar was central to it all. Andrew Daly. Wed, May 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM UTC.

Mike Campbell's many stories from his decades-long career are encapsulated in his recently-released memoir – including insights into what he brought to the Heartbreakers as Tom Petty’s guitar ...

When Mike Campbell was a young musician, Iit didn’t take long before he was hooked on the Beatles — and, more crucially, the quiet one: George Harrison. Years later, a strange twist of fate ...