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With it now being over a year since we've had a One Hit Wonderland episode about on a single from the 2000s, being Untouched by The Veronicas (amazing track btw), I felt now would be a good time to post about some one-hit wonders from the era that Todd hasn't covered yet.

Also, it gives me an excuse to post about Bartender by Rehab, so there's that too.

For years, Tim Richmond had to deal with rumors of being a drug addict, along with loads of other rumors about his health that he couldn't answer due to the AIDS panic of the 1980s. So when he failed a drug test in February of 1988 and was told to hand over his personal medical records, he refused and was suspended indefinitely from the league. The next year, he would pass away in the hospital at only 34. Richmond's family would reveal his AIDS diagnosis 10 days afterwards.

In 1991, reporter Roberta Baskin revealed that Forest Tennant, the doctor and NASCAR drug consultant who performed Richmond's drug test, would falsify tests, and accused NASCAR of having Tennant establish a substance-abuse policy to target Richmond and keep him from racing at the 1988 Daytona 500, which would've likely been his final big race. Later, even Bill France Jr., who was NASCAR's president at the time, would admit that the test they gave Richmond was a “bad test”.

Now that I got the backstory out of the way, here's a link to the full article I used for screenshots on this post: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/N9ddT