'She came into my life like a rocket, just refusing to go away,' Petty told the author.Įven Stevie realized there was a deep sense of connection in Tom and Jane Petty's marriage – but it was a troubled dream that was falling apart. She'd come in and out over decades,' his biographer wrote. 'Petty's friendship with Nicks would finally be one of the few human constants in his life outside of his band, management, and crew.
She was doing a lot of drugs when she first showed up and indulged Jane who embraced it. There was a chemistry that Stevie called 'intense, fiery' as they worked and played together. Tom's music was drawing other artists to him and one of those seduced by the music was singer Stevie Nicks, from Fleetwood Mac, who suggested even before she met him that she would leave her monumentally successful Fleet group and joined what was by then Petty and the Heartbreakers. So she got high and drank to ease her loneliness and isolation. It was a lonely existence with Tom rarely home. Petty rented a small house in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley and Jane started having babies - two girls - but this wasn't the life that she envisioned. Tom didn't want to, but honored his mother's request to do 'the right thing'.Ĭalifornia was everything he dreamed it would be. Jane insisted they get married before they left Florida. The plan evolved to head for the promised land – Hollywood.
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Smoking cigarettes and 'herb,' playing songs and talking about how to make a record demo was a daily ritual with band members.
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