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In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been dumped from their record label and were on the verge of divorce

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Garth Brooks in… The Life of Chris Gaines vinyl As Blue Lines ' iconicArthur Brooks was the best selling country artist of the 1990s. Actually, he was the best selling artist of the '90s period . So why did he close out that triumphant decade by transforming into a fictional rocker named Chris Gaines? He devised an outrageous backstory for the charactercomplete with sex addiction, facial reconstructive surgery, wildfires, and chainsawsand even recorded a pre soundtrack to an upcoming film about Gaines. But Garth Brooks