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Tom Petty to receive posthumous music PhD from Florida university

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Tom Petty will receive a posthumous PhD in music from the University Of Florida, after its board of trustees voted unanimously in favour of honouring the late rocker.The Heartbreakers frontman was born and raised in Gainesville, where the school is located.

He didn’t actually attend the school, but according to the Associated Press, he worked as a groundskeeper there prior to achieving fame.Petty’s earlier band Mudcrutch also frequently played the Gainesville area in the early ’70s, before relocating to Los Angeles and morphing into the Heartbreakers.

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