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"U.S. music legend Johnny Cash dead at 71
WASHINGTON - Country music legend Johnny Cash passed away in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, CNN said quoting a hospital spokesman. He was 71.
Cash died at 2:00 am (0700 GMT) "due to complications from diabetes which resulted in respiratory failure," spokesman Nicole Base for Baptist Hospital said.
She said family members were at his bedside when Cash passed away.
Cash was released from the same hospital on Tuesday, after spending three weeks there for treatment of pancreatitis.
His manager Lou Robin said at the time that Cash was finishing an album with songs written after his wife June Carter Cash, also a country singer, died in May. She was 73."
Today is a sad day, not only for country music, but music in general. Johnny cash has contributed so much to music, he might be dead, but the Man in Black's inflence on the music Industry will be heard for long long time.
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13-09-2003 05:38
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