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    • Dec 7, 1985
    John Denver sings "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in a flood-relief benefit at the Charleston Cultural Center in West Virginia. Some $1 million is raised with the concert which includes Richie Havens, Poco and Kathy Mattea
    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 20, 1985
    Johnny Paycheck is released from jail in Hillsboro, Ohio, after posting $25,000 bail. Paycheck was arrested for shooting a man in a barroom argument
    Jan 2, 1986
    Johnny Lee files a $15-million suit in Houston against manager Sherwood Cryer for non-payment. He seeks to be released from a 1974 management contract under which Cryer received 50% of his net income
    Jan 14, 1986
    A Dallas court rules Jimmy Dean owes his brother and former business partner, Don Dean, $500,000 for violating a 1980 agreement not to talk about Don in public. The verdict is later reversed on appeal
    Jan 15, 1986
    A safe stolen from Bill Monroe's bus in December is found at a creek in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The vault, which had contained $10,000 in cash, is empty
    Apr 23, 1986
    Roy Orbison celebrates his 50th birthday by buying a home in Malibu, California
    May 22, 1986
    George Jones and Merle Haggard post $50,000 bond money to get Johnny Paycheck out of jail in Hillsboro, Ohio, where he was being held for the December shooting of Larry Wise in a barroom argument
    Jun 9, 1986
    General Electric buys the RCA Corporation for $6.4 billion. Among RCA's country artists are Alabama, John Denver, The Judds, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Earl Thomas Conley and Ronnie Milsap
    Aug 27, 1986
    The Internal Revenue Service files liens against Johnny Paycheck in an effort to collect more than $550,000 it says Paycheck owes in back taxes, interest and penalties from 1980-82



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