Country Pop Bites: Garth Brooks – December 20

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 1997 Garth Brooks slogged to #1 on the Billboard chart with "Longneck Bottle"?

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Here are 5 interesting facts about Garth Brooks.

• His first name is Troyal (Garth is his middle name), the same first name as his father’s.
• He was working as a bouncer at the Tumbleweed Ballroom, in Stillwater, Okla., when he met Sandy Mahl, who would eventually would become his first wife and mother to his three daughters. He was breaking up a fight that had erupted between Sandy and another woman in the ladies’ room.
• In November 1995, a copy of his album ‘The Hits’ journeyed 3.4 million miles, when Colonel Bill MacArthur, a space shuttle mission specialist, took it with him as he visited the Russian Mir space station in orbit.
• He  and his first wife, Sandy, announced plans to divorce in 2000 and did so in 2001. Garth married Trisha Yearwood in December 2005.
• In 2000, he attempted to donate part of his liver for a transplant for ailing Chris LeDoux but he was deemed incompatible. Chris died of complications from liver cancer in 2005.