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...five. She was abruptly drummed out ten years later when she was caught smoking. In fact, she had already been corrupted by American comic books and rock-'n'-roll records sent her by an uncle who lived in Syracuse, N.Y. She left school for a $5-a-week window-dresser's job and sang at night in local pubs. In one of them she met her boy friend, Guitarist Les Harvey. Together they joined a rock group that became Stone the Crows...
Ballads like I've Done It All-tough, honest, "hurtin' songs" from the heart-helped Haggard, now 37, to live one of the classic success stories in the half-century history of country music. He started in the early 1960s as a $40-a-week sideman guitarist. Today he is the king of country who commands $15,000 a concert and in the past decade has sold more than 8 million LP albums and 3.5 million singles worth $44.5 million. The writer of his own words and music, he has won every honor and award that...
...play an important part. He was born April 6, 1937, in Bakersfield in a converted refrigerator car less than 100 yards from a heavily used Southern Pacific railroad main line. His father, who had brought the family West after fire destroyed their farm in Checotah, Okla., was a $40-a-week yardman. This and other highlights in Haggard's life are easy to trace in his songs...
While his mother Flossie was working as a $35-a-week bookkeeper, Merle was dropping out of the ninth grade to take any job he could find-pitching hay, sacking potatoes, roughnecking it on oil rigs. He had an easy sexuality, and the girls came around without his asking, just as the "snuff queens"-the country term for groupies-swarm around him at concerts now. At 16, he set up housekeeping in Eugene, Ore., with one of the girls. It lasted three months, and when it broke up, he went back to Bakersfield on a freight. And he ran into...
...week for the time they spend in the bowels of the British earth, working to supply the nation with critical fossil fuel. They are not paid for the time it takes them to travel up and down the mine shafts. The miners are demanding an average $20-a-week pay hike, but Heath is willing to give them no more than a $6-a-week raise...