PayCheck, Johnny
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| Birthname | Lytle, Donald Eugene | ||
| born on | 31 May 1938 at 02:30 (= 02:30 AM ) | ||
| Place | Greenfield OH, USA, 39n21, 83w22 | ||
| Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   09°11'   03°32 Asc. 12°14'
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Biography
American country singer known for being a hard-drinking hell-raiser whose big hit, selling two million copies, was "Take This Job and Shove It," 1977. Specializing in earthy, plain-spoken songs, Johnny recorded some 70 albums and had more than two dozen hit singles.
In the mid-60s, about a decade after moving to Nashville to build a country music career, he took the name of Johnny PayCheck. His career was on hold from 1989 to 1991 when he spent two years in prison for shooting a man in the head in an Ohio bar in 1985. PayCheck was sued by the Internal Revenue Service in 1982 for $103,000 in back taxes, which led to bankruptcy in 1990 when he listed debts of more than $1.6 million. After prison, he seemed to put his life in better order, giving anti-war talks to young people and becoming a regular of the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1997. He and his wife Sharon were married for more than 30 years and had one son.
He died February 18, 2003. He had been bedridden in a nursing home because of emphysema and asthma
Events
- Work : Gain social status 1977 (Noted country song best seller)
- Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 1989 (Two year imprisonment for shooting man)
- Crime : Assault/ Battery Perpetration 1985 (Shot man in the head in an Ohio bar)
- Financial : Worst Period 1982 (Owed IRS over $100,000 in back taxes)
- Financial : Bankruptcy 1990
- Work : New Job 1997 (Regular appearances on the Grand Ole Opry)
- Death by Disease 18 February 2003 (from emphysema and asthma)
Source Notes
Romy Ransom quotes B.C. 2/2003
Categories
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Country-Western (Pro)
- Lifestyle : Financial : Extreme ups and downs
- Lifestyle : Financial : Loss - Bankruptcy (Due to back taxes)
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (Over 30 years with Sharon)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One son)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Assault/ Battery (Shot man)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence (Two year imprisonment)
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ political (Anti-war speaker)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Abuse Alcohol (Hard drinker)
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Party animal (During popularity)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Emphysema
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Asthma
