OffBeat Magazine is celebrating 30 years and reaches that milestone with this November 2017 issue. To mark the anniversary, over the next 12 months OffBeat will re-publish excerpts from features and interviews from the past 30 years.

In our second installment, from our May 2012 issue, Holly George-Warren interviews singer-songwriter and guitarist Tom Petty. With the recent untimely passing of Tom Petty we revisit his interview with OffBeat.