He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but he was also involved in other bands such as Mudcrutch and the Traveling Wilburys. Petty sold more than 80 million records worldwide over his nearly five decades in the music business. Petty’s longtime manager confirmed his death Monday night. Petty 'suffered from many serious ailments.most significantly. It was an uncommonly personal album, reflecting his divorce from his wife of 20 years, Janey Petty, a woman to whom he bore a physically resemblance, who was also the mother of his two daughters. According to reports, Petty was not showing any signs of brain activity and was taken off life support. US musician Tom Petty died of an accidental overdose after taking various painkillers, according to a statement issued by his family. Toms official death certificate left his cause of death as 'deferred,' leaving it as a mystery until now. The musician was found unconscious in his Malibu home Monday morning and was rushed to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital, where he was put on life support. Tom Petty, the singer and guitarist whose influential music spanned four decades, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications involving opioids.
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"On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his overuse of medication.Tom Petty, the Grammy-winning rock legend and frontman for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, has died at 66 after suffering cardiac arrest. "As he did, it worsened to a more serious injury," the statement said.
Petty's family said he had suffered from emphysema, a fractured hip and knee problems that caused him pain, but he was still committed to his 40th anniversary tour in the US. The medical examiner's report lists the manner of death as "accidental". Standing on stage and playing the guitar night after night helped turn that fractured hip into a full-on broken hip a diagnosis Petty received the day he died. It was posted moments before the Los Angeles coroner's office issued its official findings, which attributed Petty's death to a "mixed toxicity" of fentanyl, oxycodone, generic Restoril, generic Xanax, generic Celexa, acetyl fentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl. Leading a massive rock n roll road show with a bad hip placed Tom Petty in a heartbreaking state of constant, unbelievable pain.
"We knew before the report was shared with us that he was prescribed various pain medications for a multitude of issues including fentanyl patches and we feel confident that this was, as the coroner found, an unfortunate accident," the statement said. His wife and daughter, Dana and Adria Petty, released the results of an autopsy in a statement on his Facebook page, saying coroner results showed the overdose was caused by a variety of medications.
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Petty, whose ringing guitar riffs, distinctive vocals and well-wrought everyman lyrics graced such hits as Free Fallin' and American Girl, was found unconscious at his home on October 2 last year, and died in hospital that night.
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