Unlike Petty — who famously took guitar lessons from Don Felder when he was young and referred to rhythm playing as "a lost art" — Campbell is self taught.

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WHEN two savvy Southerners hooked up with two West Midlands wild men, it was a case of light the blue touch paper and stand well back. As legend has it, they were supposed to go down like “a lead ...