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    • May 31, 1985
    Hank Williams Jr.'s album "Rowdy" earns a gold award from the RIAA
    Jun 22, 1985
    Hank Williams Jr.'s "Five-0" reaches the top of the Billboard country albums chart for the first of 10 weeks total
    Aug 10, 1985
    Hank Williams Jr. rises to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "I'm For Love"
    Sep 17, 1985
    A front page story in The New York Times proclaims that country music is "dead." The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as "not really country"
    Oct 14, 1985
    Hank Williams Jr. takes the Country Music Association's first Music Video of the Year award, for "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight," at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House, sharing it with director John Goodhue
    Oct 14, 1985
    Warner Bros. releases "Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Volume 2"
    Oct 29, 1985
    Hank Williams Jr.'s album "Five-0" is registered gold by the RIAA
    Dec 7, 1985
    Terry Speegel, a woman described as an acquaintance of Hank Williams Jr., is arrested for allegedly stealing a $4,500 diamond bracelet, a briefcase and $15,000 cash from Williams' home near Kentucky Lake in Tennessee
    Jan 3, 1986
    Willie Nelson and Alabama are out front among country acts as finalists are announced in the American Music Awards, collecting four nominations each. Lee Greenwood and Hank Williams Jr. get tabbed three times each
    Jan 22, 1986
    "Strong Stuff" earns Hank Williams Jr. a gold album from the RIAA
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