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Petty's no heartbreaker
Amazon exec Brian Valentine shelled out a whopping 165 thousand dollars to Lund Live - a company supposedly specialising in booking high-profile acts for private functions - as a 50% deposit to book veteran rocker Tom Petty for a set at his wedding.
Trouble is, nobody told Tom about it, and now the company's owner Chad Lund has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of fraud.
Luckily, Petty took pity on Mr Valentine, and, after more cash was flashed, Tom played the party after all.
Source: NME 
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Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury. He has recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a...
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