Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell has opened up about why he didn't confront the singer about his drug abuse before he died from an overdose in 2017: 'You couldn't talk Tom into anything.'

From the couch, the guitarist stood and said hi. He was tall, with a handsome, boyish Irish face and long brown hair. He said his name was Tom too. Tom Leadon. Leadon pointed to the big red-cheeked guy with a mustache who I recognized as the singer. “That’s Jim.” Jim Lenahan.

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 Farber about grieving,