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Tammy Wynette

One of country music's most iconic figures, the big-haired blonde Tammy Wynette will forever be remembered for the karaoke classic Stand By Your Man. Still at school when she married the first of her five husbands, Virginia Wynette Pugh trained as a cosmetician and worked as a waitress, a hairdresser, a barmaid and a shoemaker before she attracted any interest in her singing. In 1966 - when a single mother with three small children - she moved to Nashville, Tennessee where Billy Sherrill eventually signed her to Epic Records and changed her name to Tammy Wynette; and she broke in...