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May 7, 1973
Tanya Tucker narrowly escapes serious injury in an auto accident in Brady, Texas, while headed for a show in Uvalde. Her father, Boe, breaks both arms; her mother, Juanita, receives a broken back. Tanya suffers only facial scratches and bruises
Aug 26, 1973
Jerry Lee Lewis has his nose broken by a fellow diner at T.G.I. Friday's in Memphis, after The Killer calls the man's female companion a "redneck whore"
Sep 11, 1973
Elvis Presley breaks a finger performing karate chops on furniture in Las Vegas. He goes eight days before having it placed in a cast
Dec 24, 1973
Pam Tillis is injured in a car accident. Her face is shattered in more than 30 places, leading to multiple surgeries over the next five years. "We were partying," she tells The Music City News years later. "We partied right up a tree"
Feb 12, 1974
Kim Williams is among three people who suffer electrical burns during a freak fire at the ASG Industries glass plant in Johnson City, Tennessee. He will undergo 200 surgeries. Eventually, Williams becomes a country songwriter, penning "Three Wooden Crosses," "Papa Loved Mama" and "Warning Labels"
Oct 6, 1974
Marty Robbins crashes into a wall at 160 mph to avoid hitting other drivers in the National 500 stock car race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Robbins sustains two broken ribs and a broken tailbone, and requires 37 facial stitches
Oct 18, 1974
Al Green's ex-girlfriend, Mary Woodson, pours boiling grits on the singer in his Memphis home, then kills herself, leaving Green with second-degree burns on his torso. Twenty years later, he is nominated for a Country Music Association award
May 18, 1975
Mick Jagger accidentally cuts his wrist on the door of a New York restaurant, necessitating 20 stitches. The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" will be named among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
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"
Aug 8, 1975
Hank Williams Jr. has a near-fatal accident while climbing Ajax Mountain in Montana. His head hits several jutting rocks as he falls 500 feet. It takes six hours for medics to reach him and deliver him to Missoula Community Hospital
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