Editing Benmont Tench (section)

==Music career==
Mudcrutch eventually evolved into Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-mudcrutch27apr27,1,4046347.story |title=Tom Petty returns to his roots with Mudcrutch |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2008-04-27 |access-date=2014-02-17}}</ref>

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also a [[session musician]], having recorded with dozens of notable artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/side-player-frontman-benmont-tench-683650|title=From Side Player to Frontman: Benmont Tench on Solo Debut, Playing With Tom Petty and Bob Dylan|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter|date=2014-04-25}}</ref>
[[File:Benmont Tench Hollywood Bowl.jpg|thumb|Hollywood Bowl, October 1, 2010.]]
Songs written by Tench and recorded by other artists include "[[You Little Thief]]", a top 5 UK and Australian hit for [[Feargal Sharkey]] in 1985, and "[[Never Be You]]" (co-written with Petty), which was featured on the ''[[Streets of Fire]]'' soundtrack album and became a #1 US Country hit for [[Rosanne Cash]], also in 1985.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=77}}</ref> Tench has received two ASCAP songwriting awards: in 1995 for "[[Stay Forever (Hal Ketchum song)|Stay Forever]]" (performed by [[Hal Ketchum]]) and in 2001 for "Unbreakable Heart" (performed by [[Jessica Andrews]]). This was also recorded by [[Carlene Carter]] in the early 1990s. He also wrote songs for [[Kimmie Rhodes]] ("Play Me A Memory") and [[Lone Justice]] ("Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling)").