Very like St Paul
Ian Sansom: Johnny Cash, 9 March 2006
The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend
by Steve Turner.
Bloomsbury, 363 pp., £8.99, February 2006,0 7475 8079 0 Show More
by Steve Turner.
Bloomsbury, 363 pp., £8.99, February 2006,
“... makes the connections between rock and myth absolutely plain (partly by using capital letters): JIM MORRISON FOUND DEAD IN BATH IN PARIS? Wife Clytemnestra and lover murder Troy veteran husband in bath. MARVIN GAYE SHOT BY DAD IN BEDROOM? Oedipus kills father at crossroads. HENDRIX CHOKES TO DEATH IN HOTEL? Ajax stabs himself on beach. MANAGER ROMANCES BABY ... ”