Howie Epstein, who played bass and sang for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers between 1982 and 2002, died in a New Mexico hospital on February 23rd; he was forty-seven. Epstein was brought to the ...

Howie Epstein would have turned 55 yesterday. The Milwaukee native and Nicolet High School grad (class of 1973) died of apparent complications from heroin use in 2003 at the age of 47. He was the ...

Before he recorded albums with Tom Petty as bassist for the Heartbreakers, the late Howie Epstein was making songs in Milwaukee, songs that have never been heard — until now. Buried in boxes ...

Howie Epstein, 47, a former bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, died Sunday in a Santa Fe, N.M., hospital of a suspected drug overdose. Friends told investigators he had been using ...

Howie Epstein could do it all – until his addictions prevented him from doing anything. The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bassist (pictured above at center) died of drug-related complications ...

Howie Epstein (fourth from right) was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2001 Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein has died from a suspected drug ...

Howie Epstein, a former bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, died of what authorities suspect was a drug overdose. He was 47. Investigators were told Epstein had been using heroin ...

Howie Epstein, 47, former bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, died at a hospital in Santa Fe, N.M. late Sunday night. Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano says that while the cause of ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Howie Epstein, bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for 20 years until ousted from the band last May, died of what authorities suspect was a drug overdose. He was 47.

Howard Norman Epstein, guitarist, songwriter and producer: born Milwaukee, Wisconsin 21 July 1955; (one daughter); died Santa Fe, New Mexico 23 February 2003. For 20 years and 12 albums ...