By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt

Tom Petty, the rocker best known as the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, is dead at 66, CBS News has confirmed.

The legendary musician suffered a full cardiac arrest and was found unconscious and not breathing in his Malibu home Sunday night. He was taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and put on life support, reports TMZ.

Petty whose list of hit songs are many, was a huge part of my childhood. He owned MTV and the FM radio waves all through the 1980’s.

NewzBreaker extends our condolences to the Petty Family in their time of grief.

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