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    • Apr 13, 1987
    Fire destroys the Dallas home of Willie Nelson's drummer, Paul English, as well as his gold records and music equipment
    May 17, 1987
    An arsonist sets fire to Tom Petty's house in Los Angeles while his family eats breakfast, doing $800,000 worth of damage. Petty wrote Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and goes on to write Roy Orbison's "You Got It"
    Jun 14, 1987
    College student Daman Reynolds swerves into Loretta Lynn's bus and totals his pickup truck near Sweetwater, Texas. A sleeping Lynn is wakened by the crash, puts on a bathrobe, and nurses Reynolds until the ambulance arrives
    Jul 3, 1987
    A 14-year-old Jimmy Wayne is in the backseat of an Oldsmobile Delta 88 when his stepdad shoots someone--just one episode in a tragic childhood that leads him to become a homeless teenager
    Oct 23, 1987
    Jimmy Wayne is arrested on his 15th birthday in North Carolina, after running away from a group home
    Nov 1, 1987
    Shania Twain's parents are killed in an automobile accident near Wawa, Ontario, leaving her to take care of her two brothers
    Dec 18, 1987
    Songwriter Chuck Berry is charged with assault after striking a woman at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel. Two of the women's teeth were loosened, and she required five stitches. He pleads guilty 11 months later to a lesser charge of harassment
    Dec 31, 1987
    While fighting with a crew member in a Dallas hotel, Steve Earle is accosted by a policeman, who chokes him with his night stick. Earle is jailed for aggravated assault, and his voice is forever changed by the incident
    Jan 22, 1988
    Donna Fargo's Nashville-area house is partially destroyed by a fire that erupts in her 1978 Rolls-Royce. Her gold records survive the blaze
    Apr 9, 1988
    R&B singer Dave Prater dies in a car accident near Sycamore, Georgia. As one-half of Sam & Dave, he sang on the 1967 hit "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby," translated as a country single by Sonny James in 1976



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