Until the recent publication of his memoir Heartbreaker, Mike Campbell, who is best known as the founding lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, didn’t set out to write a book. When he was ...

Great songwriting partnerships were built on disagreement and on this major hit, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell experienced that.

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Mike Campbell played lead guitar with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for four decades. Mike Campbell has roots in Jacksonville and graduated from Ribault High School. Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs ...

In what may be the sole expression of explicit ego he ever really displayed during his history with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell has written A Memoir describing his time as guitarist ...

Mike Campbell's new memoir Heartbreaker reflects on the music he created over multiple decades with Tom Petty. Credit: Photo by Caitlyn Ridenour. Creative Commons. It should really come as no surprise ...

Singer and guitarist Mike Campbell has spent four decades making great rock 'n' roll. And he’s still truckin'. Campbell and his band, The Dirty Knobs, just released a third album, “Vagabonds, Virgins ...

After spending more than 40 years riding shotgun alongside Tom Petty with the Heartbreakers, guitarist Mike Campbell is feeling more and more comfortable as the frontman of his own band. And his time ...

“Yes, Tom [Petty] was not a perfect person. Neither am I. Neither are you, you know,” guitarist Mike Campbell says, a bit testily, during a recent phone interview about his new memoir Heartbreaker.

Tom Petty had a nickname for Mike Campbell: “co-captain.” Campbell was more than The Heartbreakers’ lead guitarist; he co-produced and co-wrote many of Petty’s biggest hits. Though the quiet guitarist ...

Mike Campbell quietly became a guitar legend. I say quietly because he’s known more for serving the song rather than flashy guitar solos. But isn’t serving the song the whole point of the guitar ...