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In the final years of his life, Tom Petty spoke often about his plan to re-release his 1994 masterpiece Wildflowers as a double album and then play it straight through on a special tour. “I probably haven’t even told the band about this yet,” Petty said in 2016, “but they …

Between 2004 and 2009, Tom Petty supplemented his rock and roll career with a surprising side gig, voicing the character Lucky on Mike Judge‘s beloved animated show, King of the Hill. In a short tribute shared with Rolling Stone, Judge remembers Petty as “the nicest, most humble and unassuming rock …