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Tributes and Obituaries Rolling Stone Magazine http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-rock-iconoclast-who-led-the-heartbreakers-dead-at-66-w506651 LA Times  http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-tom-petty-20171002-story.html Washington Post  https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tom-petty-hall-of-fame-singer-who-became-rock-mainstay-in-1970s-dies-at-66/2017/10/03/57f33aca-a7a6-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.7ee6762ffd8d New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000005474101/tom-petty-dead.html The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/02/rock-star-tom-petty-dies-heart-attack The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/tom-petty-found-unconscious-full-cardiac-arrest-not-breathing/ NME News: "Tom Petty The rock veterans last ever gig was held at the legendary Hollywood Bowl on September 25, 2017". Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/music/watch-last-song-gig-tom-petty-ever-played-2146668#EFCvk0v7D

Fresh from the announcement that she is to star in this year's 'Strictly Come Dancing',  Mollie King  storms back on to the UK music scene with her new single ' Hair Down' . Mollie has reunited with pop maestro  Brian Higgins - Xenomania  to produce an in your face pop banger that fans have longed to hear from Mollie since her announcement she was releasing solo music.  'Gotta let my hair down, I just wanna dance now' proclaims Mollie on an immense track that gets firmly stuck in your head from it's very first listen. The song was released  on Friday 1st September  via Island Records, accompanied by a breathtaking video, shot in South Africa by Kyle Lewis. Mollie says: “I've spent the last few months working hard in the studio developing my sound and experimenting with my solo music. I'm a huge fan of pop music myself and was thrilled about working with Brian Higgins again on this record. 'All Fired Up' was one of my f