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Johnny Cash: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 4 July 1994

"CAN YOU name anyone in this day and age who is as cool as Johnny Cash?", Rolling Stone magazine rhetorically asks. No one at this sold-out show could, even the platform-slippered ingenues who had never heard of him before the recent whirl of hyperbole elevated him to hipness.

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