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    • Jan 14, 1957
    Elvis Presley consults with the makeup artist a week before filming starts for "Loving You" and decides to dye his hair black. It's a change that remains throughout his life
    Jan 6, 1960
    A fraudulent dermatologist who gave Elvis Presley facial treatments for a month leaves Germany with hush money after threatening to expose Presley's relationship with the 16-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu
    Apr 30, 1964
    Elvis Presley gets a new hair stylist, Larry Geller, who becomes something of a spiritual adviser to The King
    May 1, 1964
    Hair stylist Larry Geller appears on the Paramount lot in Hollywood with promised spiritual reading material for his new client, Elvis Presley. Among the titles: "The Impersonal Life," "Autobiography Of A Yogi" and "The Initiation Of The World"
    Nov 5, 1964
    Tom T. Hall meets "Truck Drivin' Son-Of-A-Gun" songwriter Dixie Deen at the BMI Country Songwriter Awards in Nashville. The two will marry in 1968
    Jan 6, 1966
    Ernest Tubb quits a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit. He gains 49 pounds in the ensuing three months
    Apr 11, 1968
    Connie Smith has a born-again experience at a church in Nashville
    Apr 22, 1969
    The Beatles' John Winston Lennon legally changes his name to John Ono Lennon. Several of his songs are destined to become country hits
    Dec 7, 1969
    Reverend Billy Graham meets Johnny Cash over dinner at Cash's home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, beginning a lifelong friendship
    Apr 2, 1973
    Elvis Presley convinces karate coach Ed Parker to give him a sixth-degree black belt



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