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Tom Petty Owns Gainesville

September 25, 2006 at 8:02 AM | by | Comments (0)


Aptly-wrinkled, aging rocker Tom Petty headed back to his hometown of Gainsville, FL on Thursday to play a sold-out show at Univ. of Florida's O'Connell Center, and justified his status as a hometown legend.

First off, tickets to Petty's concert sold out in 10 minutes, and secondly, Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan presented each band member of The Heartbreakers with a key to the city and proclaimed Sept. 21 as "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Day."

Petty, who's lived in Malibu for years and now calls CA home, was unimpresed, noting that the key was "a lot nicer than the one we got in Chicago." At least Gainesville has that going for them.


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