RIP Tom Petty: Remembering the music icon’s TV past

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Petty, who died Monday night at age 66, was good friends with Garry Shandling (Petty played himself on It’s Garry Shandling Show and Larry Sanders). Petty also had a role on King of the Hill, playing Luanne’s husband Elroy “Lucky” Kleinschmidt in 28 episodes of the Fox cartoon. As TV Line notes, Petty’s “American Girl" was a staple of TV montages, from Scrubs to The Handmaid’s Tale. Nearly every episode of Cougar Town was named after a Petty song. “I only have real genuine love for a few artists,” Cougar Town co-creator Kevin Biegel wrote upon hearing that Petty was hospitalized. “Tom Petty is one of them. I'm sure many feel this way. A very very sad day just got sadder.”

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• CBS News prematurely reported Petty’s death, setting off confusion on social media
• Petty’s last credited TV appearance was in July in HBO’s The Defiant Ones, discussing his former producer Jimmy Iovine
• Dave Grohl recalls when Tom Petty asked him at the last-minute to fill-in on drums on SNL
• In 2008, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had one of the great Super Bowl halftime performances