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...