 We don't know what crime was committed, but boy, oh boy, he loved a recording up in Mosul Shoals. He also did Kodachrome up there, by the way. 1979, Saddam Hussein took over as dictator of Iraq. 81, this is the day Harry Chapin killed when his car struck a tractor trailer on the New York Long Island Expressway. He wrote and recorded, of course, Cats in the Cradle.