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    • Jan 28, 1980
    "Elvis: How Did He Die?": The cover of People magazine is devoted to Elvis Presley's alleged addiction to prescription drugs
    Sep 1, 1980
    Charlie Daniels performs at a campaign rally for incumbent presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in Tuscumbia, Alabama. The event also draws 60 hooded demonstrators from the Ku Klux Klan
    Dec 12, 1980
    Johnny Paycheck and Freddy Fender perform at the Great Plains Coliseum in Lawton, Oklahoma. Paycheck will be sued for $300,000 the following month for appearing drunk or drugged during his set
    Aug 26, 1982
    "Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)" songwriter Little Richard preaches in the first of two days of revivals at Nashville's Hillcrest Seventh Day Adventist Church. He announced, leading into the event, that he is no longer a homosexual
    Sep 19, 1985
    John Denver joins rockers Frank Zappa and Twisted Sister's Dee Snider to testify before a Senate committee against the Parents Music Resource Center's plan to label albums with offensive lyrics
    Sep 25, 1986
    Three members of the Humane Society picket outside a hotel in Clarksville, Tennessee, where June Carter Cash is displaying 40 fur coats in a fashion show called "A Fur Fantasia"
    Apr 2, 1987
    The Washington Post reports that Tammy Faye Bakker's "crush" on country songwriter/producer Gary Paxton drove evangelist Jim Bakker to have an affair with secretary Jessica Hahn, which triggered the much-publicized PTL scandal
    Jun 27, 1990

    KRVN in Lexington, Nebraska, becomes the first radio station to ban k.d. lang's music from the airwaves after she shot an ad that proclaims "Meat Stinks" for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

    Jul 19, 1991
    The Globe runs a story claiming the adopted son of Marie Osmond and Brian Blosil is actually his illegitimate child. The couple sues The Globe a year later, settling out of court in December 1993
    Jul 25, 1991
    After feminists find fault with her song "Maybe I Mean Yes," Holly Dunn sends an open letter to the media saying she's asked radio and video outlets to stop playing it. Opponents contend the single can be interpreted to condone date rape



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