‘you always have to have a dream.‘my other dreamran its course’

The album that TOM PETTY considered to be his career peak arrived during the most traumatic period of his life – as self-doubt, a broken marriage and record company wrangles threatened to engulf him. As a sumptuous new book illuminates Petty’s creative processes, former bandmates and collaborators hail his creative rebirth with Wildflowers. “It’s such a personal record,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Brutal at times, but kind, deliberate and honest.”

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue: Roy Harper . Since the mid-60s, the progressive folk singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career that’s also found him collaborating with everyone from Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel to Kate Bush and Ian Anderson. But he’s never quite reached the commercial heights of his peers. As his Final Tour: Part Two fast approaches, he looks back over highlights from his career so far and teases a brand-new album.

IN A 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’

Tom Petty Somewhere You Feel Free: The ...

IF ONLY HALF the rumors about him are true, Ozzy Osbourne should be dead. Yet, after 21 years of twisted public behavior, the man who brought you songs like “Paranoid,” “Bark at the Moon” and “Childre

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.