If this keeps up, she’ll be walking out to stony silence.

After Tom Petty served GOP presidential candidate (and Tea Party darling) Michele Bachmann with a cease and desist order, demanding she quit using his song “American Girl” during campaign stops, Katrina & The Waves had a little something to say as well.

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While there’s been a mostly positive reaction to Tom Petty’s classic Super Bowl performance, many of the people watching weren’t old enough to know Petty from his heyday. And seeing that today’s music market is saturated with young stars, it probably seemed weird to see an old guy like Tom Petty performing.

You’re probably wondering how old Tom Petty is. Well, it turns out that he’s 57 years old and was born on October 20th, 1950. Was he the oldest Super Bowl performer ever? No. Though he probably looks it;-)