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    • Feb 8, 1975
    Songwriter/producer Dave Brainard is born in Seoul, South Korea. He co-writes Hunter Hayes' "Everybody's Got Somebody But Me" and produces key albums for Jerrod Niemann and Brandy Clark
    Apr 23, 1975
    Badfinger guitarist Pete Ham commits suicide by hanging himself in the garage of his home in London. He co-wrote the Nilsson pop hit "Without You," remade by T.G. Sheppard during the early-1980s
    May 8, 1975
    Julio Iglesias and his wife, Isabel Preysler, have a son, Enrique Iglesias, in Madrid, Spain. Dad joins Willie Nelson on the 1984 pop-country hit "To All The Girls I've Loved Before," while son becomes a successful pop singer in the late-1990s
    May 31, 1975
    Petera Ham is born in the United Kingdom five days after her father committed suicide. Pete Ham, of the rock band Badfinger, co-authored "Without Out," destined to be a minor country hit for T.G. Sheppard
    Jun 21, 1975
    The Eagles join Elton John, Joe Walsh and Rufus in an 11-hour concert at Wembley Stadium in London. Among the 75,000 people in attendance: Harry Nilsson, David Cassidy and two ex-Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr
    Aug 4, 1975
    Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and his family are involved in a major car accident in Greece, with Plant suffering multiple fractures. He is destined to earn a Top 5 country album in 2007 with the Alison Krauss collaboration "Raising Sand"
    Sep 9, 1975
    Traditional pop vocalist Michael Buble is born in Burnaby, British Columbia. He writes and records the 2005 pop hit "Home," which will be covered for the country market in 2008 by Blake Shelton
    Oct 24, 1975
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant breaks a beer bottle over the head of a road crew member in Portsmouth, England, during a fight over how to pronounce "schnapps." Van Zant breaks a hand, and Gary Rossington breaks a hand and cuts both wrists
    Nov 5, 1975
    Lynyrd Skynyrd's Billy Powell breaks his right pinky when he punches a fellow hotel guest in London for teasing him about his hair. The band's "Sweet Home Alabama" is ranked among country's greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Nov 14, 1975
    Lynyrd Skynyrd begins a one-month tour of Europe. Drummer Robert Burns, who played on "Home Sweet Alabama," seals his departure from the band during the concert run by ripping a urinal out of a movie house wall, killing a cat and chasing a crew member with a pick axe



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