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Rock legend Tom Petty died Monday, October 2, after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California, according to Tony Dimitriades, longtime manager of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty was 66. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty Images
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers pose for a backstage portrait in August 1977. The band from Gainesville, Florida, released its debut album in 1976. Notable songs on the album included "American Girl" and "Breakdown." Michael Montfort/Getty Images
Petty sits at a table in his New York hotel room in October 1977. Allan Tannenbaum/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform on "Saturday Night Live" in November 1979. A month earlier, they had released their third album "Damn the Torpedoes," which included hit songs "Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That." Alan Singer/NBCU/Getty Images
A day after performing on "SNL," Petty performs at the Palladium in New York. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty
Petty performs at a concert in Santa Cruz, California, in 1980. George Rose/Hulton Archive/Getty
Petty poses for Rolling Stone magazine in 1982. Aaron Rapoport/Corbis Premium Historical/Getty Images
Petty performs with Bob Dylan in Chicago in July 1986. Paul Natkin/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Petty and the Heartbreakers have put out more than a dozen studio albums together. Petty also has three solo albums. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
Petty performs in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1991. That year, he and the Heartbreakers released their album "Into the Great Wide Open," which included the single "Learning to Fly." Jay Blakesberg/MediaPunch/AP Images
Petty signs autographs after his band got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in April 1999. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Petty performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, in June 2006. MARK HUMPHREY/AP
Petty, center, poses with other members of the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup that also included, from left, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and Roy Orbison. EFE//ZUMAPRESS
Petty and the Heartbreakers perform during the Super Bowl halftime show in February 2008. Tom Hauck/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Petty, flanked by his wife, Dana, and his eldest daughter Adria on the right, arrive at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards along with musician Regina Spektor, left. Christopher Polk/Getty Images
Petty kicks off his band's summer tour in 2014. Jerod Harris/Getty Images
