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Jul 4, 1981
Janice Higgs is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head outside the Nashville apartment of session bass player Bob Moore, who's played on hits by Elvis Presley, Loretta Lynn and Kenny Rogers. Weeks later, Moore passes a lie detector test, and Higgs' death is ruled a suicide
Sep 7, 1982
Songwriter Charlie Silver is found dead in a Shelbyville, Tennessee, motel room, apparently from self-inflicted gunshots. With him is a plaque from Barbara Mandrell's "Standing Room Only," the only hit he wrote
Nov 23, 1983
Badfinger bass player Tom Evans commits suicide in New Haw, England, just months after T.G. Sheppard scored a minor country hit with a remake of "Without You," which Evans co-wrote. Evans was reportedly in a battle over royalties on the song
Mar 4, 1986
Keyboard player Richard Manuel hangs himself at the Quality Inn Motel in Winter Park, Florida. He was a member of The Band, whose "Up On Cripple Creek" is among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
Feb 8, 1990
Del Shannon commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot at his home in Santa Clarita, California. Best known for his 1961 pop hit "Runaway," he wrote Juice Newton's 1986 country hit "Cheap Love"
Sep 23, 1992
Steve Scruggs, a former member of his dad's Earl Scruggs Revue, shoots his wife, Elizabeth, at their home in White House, Tennessee, then shoots himself as well
Nov 23, 1994
Pop songwriter/producer Tommy Boyce dies at his Nashville home from a self-inflicted gunshot. The producer of The Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville," he wrote Jay & The Americans' "Come A Little Bit Closer," a country hit for Johnny Duncan
Jan 19, 1995
Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan commits suicide in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. He wrote Anne Murray's introductory hit "Snowbird," plus Ocean's 1971 pop title "Put Your Hand In The Hand"
Dec 10, 1996
Faron Young dies at Summit Medical Center in Nashville, one day after shooting himself in the head. His classics included "Sweet Dreams," "Hello Walls," "If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')" and "It's Four In The Morning"
Feb 17, 1998
Pop songwriter Bob Merrill dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in his car in Culver City, California. He wrote rockabilly singer Jimmie Rodgers' "Honeycomb" and Ernest Tubb's "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry"
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