THE BEST OF EVERYTHING–THE DEFINITIVE CAREER SPANNING HITS COLLECTION: 1976-2016

unexpectedly passed away in October 2017 following a triumphant 40th anniversary tour with The Heartbreakers that had wrapped up barely a week earlier in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, the outpouring of grief on an international scale was beyond palpable. Petty’s loss at age 66 was a gut-punch, to be sure, especially considering the successive sonic triple threat of 2010’s , 2014’s , and 2016’s . Those releases made it feel like Petty was merely scratching the surface of a renewed creative phase in his