Another one gone...

Tom Petty rushed to hospital in full cardiac arrest, report says

Tom Petty was reportedly taken off of life support after he was found unconscious in his California home on Sunday.

According to TMZ, the 66-year-old star was found in cardiac arrest, not breathing.

His personal appearances manager told Fox News the office had “no comment at this time.”

The Florida native, who rose to fame in the ‘70s as the lead of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, has had a busy year. He’s been touring to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his band. Last week, he wrapped up a long leg of the tour with three sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl, according to Forbes.

The "Free Fallin'" rocker recently said this tour would be his "last big one" during a chat with Rolling Stone.

He described the hectic nature of a country-wide tour during the June interview and said he hopes to record again.

"It's still a wild pace," Petty told Rolling Stone.

Has he passed? last I heard he was still alive but not expected to make it through the night

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Jesus.

Terrible news.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Lianachan said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Has he passed? last I heard he was still alive but not expected to make it through the night

Yup, the earlier news about him being taken off life support was apparently incorrect. [Edited 10/2/17 16:13pm]

yeah... but still very sad,

CBS Erroneously Reports Tom Petty’s Death, Setting Off an Outpouring

Monika Basse, left, and her mother, Lena Basse, leaving flowers on Monday outside the hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., where the rock musician Tom Petty had reportedly been taken after a heart attack. Credit David McNew/Getty Images

The news ricocheted around the web immediately: CBS News was reporting that Tom Petty was dead.

It kicked off widespread reaction and remembrances on Monday, with star singers like John Mayer, Shania Twain and Jon Bon Jovi all paying tribute to Mr. Petty on Twitter.

It soon emerged, however, that the news was premature.

When CBS reported Mr. Petty’s death on Twitter, preceded by a capitalized banner “JUST IN,” the network attributed the news to the Los Angeles Police Department. In an article published online, there was no mention of the L.A.P.D., merely the phrase “CBS News has confirmed.” (CBS later deleted the tweet.)

Numerous other news outfits, including Entertainment Weekly, Slate and HuffPost, soon posted articles about Mr. Petty’s death, all attributing the news to CBS. Rolling Stone even got a statement from Bob Dylan, who said: “I thought the world of Tom. He was great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.”

But about an hour after the CBS report went online, the Los Angeles Police Department said it could not confirm his death, setting off mass confusion on social media over Mr. Petty’s actual condition. Mr. Petty, 66, had been taken to a hospital after going into cardiac arrest at his home in California, TMZ reported. But while TMZ had also reported that the singer was unresponsive and had been taken off life support, it never reported that he was dead.

The Police Department appeared to take the blame, saying on Twitter that “initial information was inadvertently provided to some media sources.”

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