1985Winner
Best Performance
Live Aid
Benmont Tench
Actor
Gainesville, Florida, USA
September 7, 1953
Biography
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III is a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and one of contemporary music’s finest organ players, piano players, anything- with-keys players. In addition to all of the Heartbreakers recordings, Tench has played on records by Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, the Dixie Chicks, the Replacements, John Prine, Waylon Jennings, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, just to name a few.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2015Winner
Best Performance
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2007Winner
Best Performance
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Career Highlights
Highlight
Best Performance
Del Shannon: The Runaway
2010Highlight
Best Performance
Classic Albums: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Video
Live Aid
Tom Petty: Going Home