I went to the Knebworth Festival in the UK in 1978 as a callow youth, and a then (now embarrassed ex-) fan of Genesis, not knowing the works of Tom Petty at the time. After 39 years, his set is the one from that festival that sticks in my mind. As time passes by, you encounter more and more passings of musical icons that have featured in your life with varying degrees of feelings of loss. I never owned one of Tom's records (in retrospect, I don't know why) but this loss seems to be one of the more painful. Nearly as heartbreaking as the passing of John Peel for me (Brit music fans will know what I mean). RIP Tom