Country Pop Bites: Garth Brooks – November 1

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2003 Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places" took the top spot in the CMT special "40 Greatest Drinking Songs"?

It’s true!

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Here are 5 interesting facts about Garth Brooks.

• He was working as a bouncer at the Tumbleweed Ballroom, in Stillwater, Okla., when he met Sandy Mahl, who would eventually 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 1994, when he played Dublin, Ireland, he drew the biggest crowds there since a 1979 visit from the pope.
• In November 1995, a copy of his ‘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.
• 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.
• Garth, who earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising in 1985, earned his Master’s in business administration from Oklahoma State in 2011. He attended the ceremony and donned a cap and gown.