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    • Apr 15, 1975
    Bessie Lee Mauldin files for divorce from Bill Monroe in Nashville, claiming to be his common-law wife. He agrees to pay his former bass player $75,000
    May 7, 1975
    A day after filing for divorce, Olene Tubb gets a restraining order in Nashville, preventing Ernest Tubb from visiting their former residence
    Jun 24, 1975
    Former Columbia Records president Clive Davis and 18 other executives are indicted for six counts of income tax evasion. Davis later pleads guilty to one count
    Sep 10, 1975
    Elvis Presley receives a ticket for a traffic violation in Memphis
    Sep 23, 1975
    Songwriter Ron Peterson files suit in Nashville against Conway Twitty, charging that he--not Twitty--wrote the hit "Touch The Hand"
    Oct 7, 1975
    The deportation case of John Lennon is closed when the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York rules a marijuana offense does not justify booting him. Future country hits Lennon co-wrote include "I Feel Fine" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
    Oct 15, 1975
    Margaret Ann Rich files for divorce from Charlie Rich in Memphis. She withdraws the petition three weeks later
    Oct 22, 1975
    The courts rule that Billie Jean Williams' marriage to Hank Williams was valid and that she is entitled to 50% of his royalties from copyright renewal. Williams' first wife, Audrey, had contested Billie Jean's rights
    Nov 4, 1975
    Margaret Ann Rich withdraws the petition she filed three weeks earlier in Memphis seeking divorce from Charlie Rich
    Jan 20, 1976
    Songwriter Raymond Hall is paroled from Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, after serving 48 years on charges of manslaughter and killing a prison guard. Hall co-wrote the Jimmie Rodgers hit "Moonlight And Skies"



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