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A year after Petty's death,

The cat was let out of the bag a few weeks ago in a Washington Post story. Zanes also wrote the companion book to the film. I certainly would like to think the account in the book is not romantic. It is not. If it began as a place to take refuge, it ends as its own prison. The Del Fuegos spent a summer opening arena shows for Petty. He made the call to Zanes, a double Ph.

They struck a deal. Not ghost-written, not co-written, not authorized. And he stuck to that agreement. Pre-publication, Petty got the book in two halves. His trouble in his marriage to an ultimate divorce to him getting involved with heroin to his band having real significant difficulties and that was harder for him to read. But he adhered to the arrangement; he did not ask me to take anything out.

Petty is now He lives differently in his songs than he does in his life. Zanes says he was initially reluctant to put much in there, but noted rock historian Peter Guralnick read early versions and encouraged him to put more of himself in it.