Tom Petty's original Heartbreakers formed 1970. Tom Petty – bass guitar, lead vocals. Randall Marsh – drums. Tom Leadon – guitar, vocals, lead vocal on "Queen of the Go-Go Girls", co-lead vocal on "Shady Grove" Mike Campbell – guitar, mandolin. Benmont Tench – keyboards, vocals, lead vocal on "This Is a Good Street"

Oct 20, 1977 a horrific plane crash took the lives of members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their road crew and both the pilot and co-pilot irrevocably altering the course of the Southern rock outfit, their families and music history. Frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, were lost. Dean Kilpatrick, a personal assistant to the band, also died.