I would like to submit that it is impossible to have been in high school in Indiana in the 1990s and not be a huge Tom Petty fan. Absolutely, utterly impossible.
Reports are confused; he may still be with us and he may be gone. All I know is I drove home tonight blasting this song, and then Wildflowers, at top volume, and I had to stop singing along partway through the chorus because I was crying.