Listen to Episode 335 - Tom Petty's Life, Music & Enduring Legacy
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Episode Transcript
Here's a highlight from a recent episode of book Don Rock.
Jillian Guard is the author of Tom Petty, the life
and music chapters on Petty's live Aid appearance Farmide Bonding
with Bob Dylan. They're in there too, of course. They're
tour with Bob Dylan, Tom and the Heartbreakers. And there's
an album that's sometimes forgotten that came out prior to
Full Moon Fever nineteen eighty seven's let Me Up I've
(00:21):
Had Enough featuring Jam and Me all mixed up think
about Me as the singles. Things are moving along quite
nicely here until May seventeenth, nineteen eighty seven, when Tom's
house burned down. This was not an accident.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Now, that was weird. I don't remember hearing about that
at the time, and it wasn't something I knew about
him until working on this book. But yeah, someone set
fire to his house.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
While they're in the house too. They're all having breakfast.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I think he said, yeah, yeah, And it was his
wife's birthday. They were you know, that's right, he'll be celebrating,
and one of their daughters, thankfully, was sleeping over at
a friend's house. And I don't know, I guess if
they got up at a regular time. It wasn't unusually early,
like you know, four am or something, but yeah, they
(01:07):
were there having breakfast and he thought, oh, what's that
some wire gone back or something, but then no, no,
it's the house and it's on fire. And it sounds
like it burned pretty quickly because he talked about trying
to put some of the fire out with the hose,
and the hose melted in his hands and his housekeeper
got mildly burned. But thankfully that was all that happened
(01:32):
to them. They were able to get out, and much
of the house was destroyed. I mean, you think about that,
losing your stuff, that would be hard, whoever you are.
But it seems that a lot of the studio and
his instruments and his tapes were preserved, so that was
a lucky break for him. But still it wasn't a
place he could live. And then he had thought it
was an accident, that, yes, faulty wiring something like that,
(01:56):
but then the investigator said, no, we've looked at it
and it's clearly arson and they found a hole had
been cut in the back fence and this kind of thing,
and he was just stunned. You know, who would want
to kill me and my family and the comments he
made on he said he just you know, he had
no idea who would want to He didn't even and
(02:18):
it never has been sald.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Never saw in case when cold that's it. Yeah, I
mean that's something that somebody should do some investigation into
and find out because that whoever did that should be
brought to justice if they're still around. But I mean,
then that really that really shook him up. And now
I think he rebuilt the house on the same location.
But who was it? Somebody? Oh he was Andy Lennox.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To the Lenox became the other Rhythmics tie.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
She did him the real solid and made sure he
got him and his family got a place to stay,
got clothing and all that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, I mean he was going out on tour soon,
and he just went ahead with the tour. I mean,
I suppose why not instead of just stay home brooding
about it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And then it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Seemed like you know, he always had you kind of
had that laconic way of talking, and he'd be at
a concert saying, well, yeah, I had an interesting week,
you know, like last my houseburn down. But they didn't
get this, and he holded his guitar. I was going
to call me saying, yeah, my huseburn down. I lost
most of my possessions.
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