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    • Jul 11, 1981
    Hank Williams Jr. performs "Dixie On My Mind" on TV's "Solid Gold." Also aboard: Jose Feliciano, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty
    Jul 14, 1981
    Rocker Tom Petty earns a gold album from the RIAA for "Hard Promises." It includes "A Thing About You," which Southern Pacific revives as a country hit four years later
    Jun 6, 1982
    Linda Ronstadt performs "Blue Bayou" and "Living In The U.S.A." for 85,000 during the anti-nuclear Peace Sunday rally at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Also in the lineup are Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Dan Fogelberg, Stevie Wonder and Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Jun 1, 1984
    The kidnapping drama "Streets Of Fire" debuts in movie theaters. The soundtrack includes Maria McKee's performance of a Tom Petty song, "Never Be You," which will be remade as a country hit by Rosanne Cash
    Jun 26, 1984
    MCA releases the "Streets Of Fire" soundtrack. It includes Maria McKee's version of a Tom Petty song, "Never Be You," destined to become a country hit after Rosanne Cash re-records it
    Sep 22, 1985
    Willie Nelson sponsors the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois, with Merle Haggard, John Cougar Mellencamp, Roger Miller, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Alabama, George Jones, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, B.B. King, Judy Rodman and Waylon Jennings, among others
    Jan 25, 1986
    Rosanne Cash reaches #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Never Be You," written by Tom Petty
    Dec 27, 1986
    Hank Williams Jr.'s remake of "Mind Your Own Business" tops the Billboard country singles chart, with help from guest vocalists Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Reba McEntire and Reverend Ike
    May 17, 1987
    An arsonist sets fire to Tom Petty's house in Los Angeles while his family eats breakfast, doing $800,000 worth of damage. Petty wrote Rosanne Cash's "Never Be You" and goes on to write Roy Orbison's "You Got It"
    Sep 30, 1987
    Cinemax shoots "Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black & White Night" at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove, with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, T Bone Burnett, James Burton, Jennifer Warnes and k.d. lang, among others
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