Heartbreakers beach party cameron crowe biography
With Mike Campbell, Cameron Crowe, Howie Epstein, Stan Lynch.
Cameron Crowe describes discovering a love for directing while making the rock documentary 'Heartbreakers Beach Party,' in theaters.!
Cameron Crowe On Tom Petty: “He said, I’m not bigger than life. Life is bigger than me…”
Initially commissioned to promote Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ 1982 album Long After Dark, Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party captured an irreverent and revealing portrait of Petty at the height of his fame.
Only shown once on MTV before slipping into cult status, the film is being shown in cinemas this weekend to mark what would have been the singer’s 74th birthday.
In this extract from our Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers feature in the latest issue of MOJO, Grayson Haver Currin speaks to director Cameron Crowe and Petty’s daughter Adria about a side of Petty rarely seen…
IN THE EARLY 80s, TOM PETTY WAS NOT exactly an easy or candid interview.
His public fights with his record labels, first over an unfavourable contract and then over an attempt to charge more for his albums, provided easy fodder for inquiring journalists. But he started going only skin-deep, choosing to talk more