{"id":254212,"date":"2025-09-25T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254212\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:28:11","slug":"on-this-day-in-2017-tom-petty-took-the-stage-for-the-final-time-before-his-death-watch-him-perform-his-last-song-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254212\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 2017, Tom Petty Took the Stage for the Final Time Before His Death\u2014Watch Him Perform His Last Song Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day (September 25) in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/tom-petty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Petty<\/a> and the Heartbreakers wrapped up their 40th anniversary tour. They took the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for the third of three sold-out shows. That night, Petty was joined by three original members of his backing band, the Heartbreakers\u2013Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, and Ron Blair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/4-tom-petty-classics-that-were-co-written-with-mike-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[RELATED: 4 Tom Petty Classics That Were Co-Written With Mike Campbell]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Petty released his debut album, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, in November 1976. By the time he took the stage for the final time, the album was just months away from being 41 years old. The singer\/songwriter was less than a month away from turning 67, and his life had changed drastically. He was a grandfather and wanted nothing more than to spend time with his new granddaughter. As a result, he was looking to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking it may be the last trip around the country. It\u2019s very likely we\u2019ll keep playing, but will we take on 50 shows in one tour? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/tom-petty-40th-anniversary-tour-might-be-last-big-one-106284\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rolling Stone<\/a> ahead of the tour. \u201cI\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t say I was thinking this might be the last big one, he added. \u201cI have a granddaughter now, I\u2019d like to see as much as I can. I don\u2019t want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid, that\u2019s a lot of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all very aware that time is finite,\u201d Petty said in the interview. No one expected those words to take on new weight in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Petty died on October 2, 2017, eighteen days before his 67th birthday, from cardiac arrest after an accidental overdose at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Play One Last Show<\/p>\n<p>Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers didn\u2019t have a new album to promote during the tour. Instead, they built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers\/2017\/hollywood-bowl-los-angeles-ca-1be26924.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their setlist<\/a> from four decades of timeless tunes. The concert included songs from the band\u2019s discography as well as Petty\u2019s solo work. They closed the show with a two-song encore that ended with \u201cAmerican Girl.\u201d Watch that performance below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Setlist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cRockin\u2019 Around (with You)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMary Jane\u2019s Last Dance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou Don\u2019t Know How It Feels\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cForgotten Man\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Won\u2019t Back Down\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFree Fallin\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBreakdown\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDon\u2019t Come Around Here No More\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s Good to Be King\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201dCrawling Back to You\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWildflowers\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Could Have Known It\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRefugee\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRunnin\u2019 Down a Dream\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Encore:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cYou Wreck Me\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAmerican Girl\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Featured Image by Tim Mosenfelder\/WireImage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this day (September 25) in 2017, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers wrapped up their 40th anniversary tour.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,4185,67151,67152,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-254212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-rock-music","11":"tag-tom-petty","12":"tag-tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115266355569106803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}