Such an amazing body of work, but for me it’s hard to top the essential weirdness of pairing Petty with producer/Eurythmics cofounder Dave Stewart for an uncharacteristically slinky little tune, reputedly about a 5am run-in with a possibly coked-up Stevie Nicks trying on Victorian clothes in the bedroom where Stewart had gone to pass out a couple hours before.
RIP, Tom, and thanks for so many great songs, albums, and performances.
UPDATE: This is from TMZ. “Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom’s hospital room. We’re told the family has a do not resuscitate order on Tom. The singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he’s still clinging to life. A report that the LAPD confirmed the singer’s death is inaccurate — the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. handled the emergency.”