MANCHESTER, N.H. —Shock and condolences have poured in from superstar acts like Aerosmith, the Eagles, Eric Clapton and Def Leppard since the news of Tom Petty’s passing, but a New Hampshire native may have known the rocker better than any of them.

Warren Zanes first tuned into Petty as a boy, listening to him on the radio from his childhood home in Concord. | More…