Tom Petty Family Members Unite to Denounce Trump for Using ‘I Won’t Back Down’ at Rally
Chris Willman Music WriterFour of Tom Petty’s family members came together Saturday night to quickly release a statement blasting the president for using the rocker’s “I Won’t Back Down” at his Tulsa campaign rally, saying Petty “would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate. He liked to bring people together.”The statement said that Donald Trump “was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind.