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  • Jun 19, 1985
    A bruised Bruce: Ed Bruce's 17-year-old daughter, Leigh Ann-Marie, receives minor cuts and bruises when another vehicle turns in front of the 1977 Mercedes she's driving in Nashville
    Aug 16, 1985
    Carl Perkins' blue suede shoes are stolen from his tour bus while it's parked outside a Memphis theater where he's performing
    Oct 8, 1985
    "Slippin' And Slidin'" songwriter Little Richard is hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after fracturing his right leg in a car wreck
    Oct 19, 1985
    Ray Charles' band experiences minor bruises when his plane skids on landing at a wet runway in Bloomington, Indiana. Charles is signed, at the time, to Columbia Records' country division
    Oct 23, 1985
    Merle Watson dies in a North Carolina tractor accident. The son of Doc Watson, he played banjo and guitar with his influential father from 1964 until his death
    Oct 23, 1985
    David Crosby, formerly of The Byrds, is arrested in Mill Valley, California, after crashing into a fence. He's charged with hit and run, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia
    Nov 13, 1985
    Vandals break into Bill Monroe's house and assault his Gibson mandolin, the instrument with which he established bluegrass music. Nothing is stolen
    Dec 7, 1985
    Terry Speegel, a woman described as an acquaintance of Hank Williams Jr., is arrested for allegedly stealing a $4,500 diamond bracelet, a briefcase and $15,000 cash from Williams' home near Kentucky Lake in Tennessee
    Dec 16, 1985
    Bill Monroe reports a safe containing $10,000 was stolen from his bus during the previous week. The safe weighed 300 pounds
    Dec 19, 1985
    Johnny Paycheck shoots Larry Wise at the North High Lounge in Hillsboro, Ohio, after Wise asked if he'd ever eaten turtle meat




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