Tom Petty’s family members have released a joint statement denouncing U.S. leader Donald Trump’s use of the rock legend’s hit I Won’t Back Down at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday.According to the late star’s family, Petty, who died in 2017, “wrote this song for the underdog, for the common man and for everyone,” adding: “We want to make it clear that we believe everyone is free to vote as they like, think as they like, but the Petty family doesn’t stand for this.”Condemning President Trump, they continued: “We believe in America and we believe in democracy.
But Donald Trump is not representing the noble ideals of either.“We would hate for fans that are marginalized by this administration to think we were complicit in this
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