Mike Campbell shot to fame as Tom Petty’s guitarist in the Heartbreakers. Over the years since the group formed in 1976, ...

Most guitarists — even rich, famous ones — have that one guitar they dream of acquiring. Not so for Mike Campbell, who recently sold off over 100 guitars from his vast collection, and who estimates ...

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 ...

Throughout their decades-long tenure together, Tom Petty, his lead guitarist and co-writer Mike Campbell, and their band, the Heartbreakers, had no small shortage of career-defining hits. From ...

Singer and guitarist Mike Campbell has spent four decades making great rock 'n' roll. And he’s still truckin'. Campbell and his band, The Dirty Knobs, just released a third album, “Vagabonds, Virgins ...

In what may be the sole expression of explicit ego he ever really displayed during his history with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell has written A Memoir describing his time as guitarist ...

“Heartbreaker” is the story of an artist whose music many readers have danced to, though they may not recognize his name. For decades, Mike Campbell not only played lead guitar with Tom Petty and the ...

Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell explained why he never confronted his bandleader Tom Petty before Petty’s 2017 death from an accidental drug overdose. “I don’t torture myself [over Petty’s death ...

Tom Petty had a nickname for Mike Campbell: “co-captain.” Campbell was more than The Heartbreakers’ lead guitarist; he co-produced and co-wrote many of Petty’s biggest hits. Though the quiet guitarist ...