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    • Jun 13, 1997
    One of Neal McCoy's tour buses collides with another vehicle in Henrietta, Texas, killing two people in the car. McCoy is aboard another bus at the time
    Jul 6, 1997
    Record producer Owen Bradley breaks his shoulder when he trips on one of his grandson's toys while on his boat on Nashville's Old Hickory Lake
    Jul 15, 1997
    Fashion designer Gianni Versace is killed by a gunman outside his home in Miami Beach, Florida. A dozen years later, his namesake company is referenced in Tim McGraw's hit "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You"
    Jul 19, 1997
    Con Hunley has a single-car accident in Knox County, Tennessee, and is charged with DUI after staggering in front of a police officer. His attorney later convinces the court his balance was shaken by a concussion, not by alcohol
    Aug 1, 1997
    Shelby Lynne suffers head injuries when she crashes a pickup truck in Williamson County, Tennessee. She is hospitalized at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she remains for two days
    Sep 29, 1997
    Sons Of The Desert discover a fire as they check out of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York's theater district
    Oct 1, 1997
    Janis Gill breaks her left wrist when she's thrown by a horse
    Oct 12, 1997
    Singer/songwriter John Denver dies in a plane crash near Monterey, California, when the engine quits on the test plane he's piloting. Denver leaves a string of folk-tinged pop-country hits, including "Thank God I'm A Country Boy," "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Annie's Song" and "Back Home Again"
    Nov 27, 1997
    Razzy Bailey and his wife, Faye, are injured in a car accident driving from Nashville to Macon, where he is scheduled for induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Neither needs hospitalization, but they are forced to skip the ceremony
    Dec 5, 1997
    Ray Charles' manager, Carl Hunter, is arrested for suspicion of marijuana possession in Nagoya, Japan. Charles brought country to mass culture with his 1962 album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"



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