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Oct 14, 1972
Tor Erik Hermansen is born in Norway. A member of the Stargate pop production team, he works with Ne-Yo, Beyonce and Wiz Khalifa before co-writing the Lady Antebellum country hit "Compass"
Feb 16, 1973
"Starting Over Again" songwriter Donna Summer and Helmut Sommer have a daughter, Mimi Sommer, in Munich, Germany
Feb 25, 1973
Latin singer Julio Iglesias and wife Isabel Preysler have a son, Julio Iglesias Jr., in Madrid, Spain. Eleven years later, Dad ends up on the country charts with a little help from Willie Nelson
Mar 2, 1973
Fiddler Joe "Big Red" Hayes dies from a heart ailment in the arms of Vassar Clements at the Free Trade Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, after a performance with Connie Smith. Hayes co-wrote the classic "A Satisfied Mind"
Apr 8, 1973
Surrealist painter Pablo Picasso dies of heart failure in Mougins, France. He's namechecked in Trick Pony's 2001 country single "Just What I Do"
Apr 9, 1973
The rock band Queen gives its inaugural performance at the Marquee Theater in London, England. Lead singer Freddie Mercury eventually writes their hit "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," covered in the country charts by Dwight Yoakam
Jun 6, 1973
Lisa Brokop is born in Surrey, British Columbia. She's nominated in the mid 1990s for Top New Female Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music
Jun 26, 1973
Keith Richards is arrested at his home in Jamaica on multiple narcotics charges, plus firearms possession. He co-wrote "Honky Tonk Women," cited in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number" among country's 500 greatest singles
Jul 29, 1973
Songwriter/producer David Foster and his wife, B.J. Cook, welcome a daughter, Amy Foster-Gilles, in Victoria, British Columbia. Foster-Gilles will co-write "Home," a Michael Buble song that becomes a country hit when it's covered by Blake Shelton
Sep 6, 1973
John Reid is born in Easterhouse, Scotland. A vocalist with the 1990s house music band Nightcrawlers, he co-writes Keith Urban's 2009 country hit "Only You Can Love Me This Way"
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