Singer-songwriter Tom Petty, famed for his songs about love and Los Angeles, has suffered a cardiac arrest. Initial reports that he had died were walked back by Los Angeles police after about an hour.
Petty was taken off of life support at a Los Angeles-area hospital on 2 October 2017 after being hospitalized following a heart attack. The gossip site TMZ stated that life support was pulled for Petty because of a lack of brain activity.
The Los Angeles Police Department said on Twitter that “initial information was inadvertantly [sic] provided to some media sources,” adding that it was not investigating Petty’s hospitalization. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and the hospital declined to comment, and an e-mail to his publicist was not immediately returned. (...)
[ed. Hopefully this is all premature. Still, it sounds like a bad situation. See also: Report: Tom Petty Hospitalized After Cardiac Arrest.]
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[ed. I think Wildflowers was one of his best efforts (and, in a way, had a part in starting this blog). See also: Crawling Back to You.]
[ed. I think Wildflowers was one of his best efforts (and, in a way, had a part in starting this blog). See also: Crawling Back to You.]
