Bob Dylan Pays Tribute to Friend Tom Petty In Broomfield

BROOMFIELD, CO -- Bob Dylan strayed from his ordinarily rigid setlist Saturday in Broomfield, Colo. and performed a song to pay homage to Tom Petty, his bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys. Dylan and his band performed "Learning to Fly" at 1STBANK Center, the day after what would have been Petty's 67th birthday. The hit Heartbreakers song was released in 1991 on the album Into the Great Wide Open.

Petty died on Oct. 2, after what his friends and family said was a cardiac arrest. The Los Angeles Coroner declined to immediately reveal the cause of death.

A fan caught Dylan's touching tribute and the crowd's enthusiastic applause in Broomfield Saturday:

The members of the Traveling Wilburys were:

• Tom Petty as Charlie T. Wilbury
• Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra) as Otis Wilbury
• Bob Dylan as Lucky Wilbury
• Roy Orbison as Lefty Wilbury
• George Harrison as Nelson Wilbury

Producer Lynne was co-author of Learning to Fly. Of the original supergroup, only Lynne and Dylan are still alive. Harrison died Nov. 29, 2001 and Orbison died Dec. 6, 1988.

Image Bob Dylan after receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor (Photo by Christy Bowe/Corbis via Getty Images)