Michael Wayne Campbell (born February 1, 1950) is an American guitarist and vocalist. He was a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and co-wrote many of the band's hits with Petty, including "Refugee", "Here Comes My Girl", "You Got Lucky", and "Runnin' Down a Dream".

It's Campbell's first album with Chris "Sidewinder" Holt, who joined the Dirty Knobs in 2022 for the touring on External Combustion and has added keyboards to the armory along with clear, sharp harmonies and a garage-guitar attack that fortifies the staccato riffing in "So Alive" and makes the double-time frenzy in "Shake These Blues" sound ...

Mar 18, 2025 · Mike Campbell never tried to intervene with Tom Petty's heroin addiction, he tells The Independent. The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist has a new memoir, Heartbreaker, out March 18.

Mar 18, 2025 · Mike Campbell Chris Phelps The depth and detail in the 464-page Heartbreaker: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing) is impressive — and surprising. To Mike Campbell as well.

1 day ago · Mike Campbell is a phenomenal guitar player whose prolificacy could bring many of his peers to shame. But what I took away most from Heartbreaker, his new memoir, was how much of a mediator he was.

Jul 8, 2024 · After Tom Petty died in 2017, musician Mike Campbell took on a new role in his long musical career: singer and leader of his current band, the Dirty Knobs.

Sep 22, 2024 · For nearly 50 years, Mike Campbell shared the spotlight with a legend he refers to as “my brother” — the late Tom Petty, whose death in 2017 changed everything for Campbell, a brilliant ...

Mar 11, 2025 · With his upcoming memoir, Heartbreaker, due March 18 from Hachette Book Group, guitarist Mike Campbell delivers a spellbinding account of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the classic American band he was a part of …

Mar 16, 2025 · As guitarist and a key architect of the Eighties band’s iconic sound, Mike Campbell rode the highs and lows of band life alongside his inimitable, hot-tempered frontman. He speaks with Jim ...

Mar 16, 2025 · Mike Campbell and Tom Petty onstage in 1983. The Heartbreakers guitarist documents his time with Petty in a new memoir. Gary Gershoff/Getty Images