The night before what would have been Tom Petty‘s 67th birthday, a group of fans convened along the Southern California thoroughfare name-checked in his classic “Free Fallin’” to pay tribute to the dearly departed singer.
Petty, who left music lovers stunned and saddened with his sudden death on Oct. 2, painted a vivid lyrical portrait of late ’80s life around Los Angeles in “Free Fallin’,” including a number of references to local landmarks — like the line “All the vampires walking through the valley / Move west down Ventura Boulevard.”
That particular lyric inspired local artist and jeweler Mary Soracco to organize yesterday’s “vampire walk” as an eerily fitting birthday celebration.




