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Lead image

The image "The band in 1977" is much better for the lead image than the present one IMO. Suggest it is moved to the top.

Genres

Should Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers be classed as "rock and roll"? Much of their early (and later) music exemplified the base form of the genre, and Petty himself has insisted on the name in numerous interviews^[1].

^ Richard Robinson. "Heartbreakers and American Girls: Tom Petty Does It To Have Fun". Hit Parader. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

[1] Richard Robinson. "Heartbreakers and American Girls: Tom Petty Does It To Have Fun". Hit Parader. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

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