Local artists Carrie and Jesus Martinez painted a Tom Petty Mural at the Sidney Lanier Center, the elementary school Petty attended. Florida is a really beautiful and complex state and (Gainesville) fosters a lot of intelligence and compassion and incredible manners and incredible decency.” “‘Gainesville’ has been blasting in my head since I landed,” she said. The idea of the air smelling good and the trees are green - there is nothing like this park to really illustrate that,” she said.
“Gainesville is an extraordinary place and if you listen to my dad’s music here, it has a different meaning. She talked about a song called “Gainesville” that’s on “An American Treasure,” a new four-CD box set of Petty’s music. Other area events celebrated the singer and included the Tom Petty Birthday Bash and Tom Petty Weekend.Īdria Petty, Tom’s daughter, grew up in Los Angeles but spent time in North Florida with her parents. His family lived a block from the Gainesville park and it was like a second home for him and his brother. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Petty sold millions of records worldwide with the Heartbreakers, the Traveling Wilburys supergroup and as a solo artist. 20, 1950 in Gainesville and lived in the small city until he left for Los Angeles to make it big in the music business.
The fact that we are doing this today and the part that we played in it makes it so much more special.” “It was a place for us to escape and be kids and have fun. My cousin reminded me the other day of my remark that it was a sanctuary, and it really was,” said brother Bruce Petty. The Gainesville Sun reports that hundreds of members of the Tom Petty Nation! fan club visited Gainesville on Saturday to celebrate the star’s birthday with his music and the dedication of the former Northeast Park as Tom Petty Park. A Florida park was renamed after iconic rocker Tom Petty, who played at that park as a boy.
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