I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight' mystery artist had a recent unauthorized autobiography published that claims  although he is successful he is not shown the same respect as Bruce Springsteen.  Can you guess who he might be or why that is??

The book was written Warren Zanes by and is titled Petty a Biography.
Zanes is a big fan of Tom Petty and in the book cover some very sensitive subjects like Tom’s heroin addiction, his first meeting with George Harrison when he asked for an autograph and why he feels Tom doesn’t get the same respect as some other artists. He writes:

As a fan, I have to grumble that Petty’s never been given quite the same level of respect as, say, Bruce Springsteen. I favor Petty. A couple things. Tom Petty has had too many hits for some critics to be fully comfortable with him. The old, art commerce divide where people go, “oh, it’s too commercial.” The other thing, I was just talking to somebody who was watching a live Tom Petty concert on a computer, no between-song banter. He didn’t ever get a trampoline out and do a backflip. No, he goes out and plays the songs that he wrote. That extends to interviews. He’s just not a self-promoter. He couldn’t go from music into politics, and Bruce Springsteen could. And that’s not a judgment on Bruce. There are times I wish that Petty was more of a self-promoter if only so that his songs could travel a little more widely. Because they’re so good.

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