Johnny Cash was a music songwriter, singer, and guitarist. His music covered a variety of country, rock, blues, and gospel. The movie Walk the Line is based off Johnny’s music career. He was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas to Ray and Carrie Cash with the name J.R. Cash because his parents couldn’t decide on a name; he later had to change his name to John R. Cash to enlist in the United States Air Force. He grew up on a twenty-acre farm since the age of three when his father took advantage of the New Deal, and became a sharecropper. His family farmed cotton and a variety of seasonal crops. His mother was an influence on his interest in music, when she would sing folk and hymn ballads while working in the fields with her children. …show more content…
Where he and Vivian eventually had four daughters Tara, Rosanne, Cindy and Kathy. During his marriage to Vivian is when his career really took off. He had several number one hits, the most famous, “I Walk the Line” and “Folsom Prison Blues”. Johnny and Vivian’s marriage began to fail when he was on tour almost three hundred nights a year, and she became tired of being home alone with the responsibility of raising four daughters by herself. Being on tour with June Carter, he began to fall in love with her while still married to Vivian, which was a factor to ending their marriage along with his drug addiction to pills. He became dependent on narcotics to help keep up with the pace. By the mid 60’s he was extremely addicted and it impacted his career. The move goes into detail of his drug addiction, and how it really affected him and everyone around him. Johnny was arrested for smuggling amphetamines across the United States border from Mexico. A year later he was found by a police officer after a serious drug binge near death, in Georgia. June Carter stepped in to help him refocus on his Christian lifestyle and overcome his drug …show more content…
host. Johnny and June got married on March 1, 1968. Marring June was a turnaround for his career, he even hosted his own television show The Johnny Cash Show, that showcased contemporary musicians. That same year he won two Grammy Awards for his album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Then in 1970 June gave birth to their son John Carter Cash. Ten years later in 1980, he was elected into the Country Hall of Fame, being the youngest living person to do so. He joined Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson to form the group The Highwaymen from 1985 to 1995, with a number one hit “Highwayman”.
Johnny Cash continued his career in music up until his death in 2003, even through many health problems. With abdominal surgery in 1983, the in 1988 he had a double-bypass heart surgery. He carried on until 1998 he was hospitalized with pneumonia, once again he recovered and continued to produce more music. In 2002, his health continued to decline. Then May 2003 June Carter Cash passed away, yet devastated he continued with his career. He recorded his last album American V: A Hundred Highways just a week before he passed away on September 12,
So much so that he landed himself at Howard University. Yet his group of friends and their thoughts on how Howard was just for the bourgeois black folk and not country boys likes him drove him to ruin it all. Hook smoked and sniffed more drugs than he sold around campus, and witnessed his friend murder because of it. When he was kicked out of school he went home and cleaned his parents out to go on a coke binge. This landed him in the home of the very man that he was selling drugs for.
Johnny Cash had 14 number 1 top hits. He learned to play guitar when he was in the air force, that is when Johnny knew he wanted to join the music business. After he left the air force he joined the Keegan School of Broadcasting to try and get into the music business. Despite the fact that he had a normal American childhood, Johnny Cash became one of the best country singers of all time (“Johnny Cash” Contemporary). Johnny Cash had a pretty normal childhood for his time in age.
"He has muscles in his hair, I'd rather not throw the ball at all, when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1973 by Jimmie Foxx. " -- Quotes by Lefty Gomez on Jimmie Foxx and pitching to him (Quotes). Jimmie Foxx was an amazing baseball player with an outstanding career.
The American Pioneer Johnny Appleseed If you like apples then you owe a thank you to Johnny Appleseed for helping spread them throughout America. Johnny Appleseed was a make believe character that was based on John Chapman. Although many of the facts told in the story did happen, most did not occur in John Chapman’s real life.
Besides being an entrepreneur, John Wayne dressed as a clown and performed at children's parties. He called himself “Pogo.” He married and divorced twice and had biological children and stepchildren. In 1968, Gacy was convicted of sexual assault of two teenage boys. This is where all of the serial killings began.
Vivian Cash would file for divorce in 1966, and gain full custody of their daughters. As his addictions grew, Cash would continuously struggle and later overdose. June and Cash would cowrite “Ring of Fire” in 1963 and would marry in 1968. He would release his second album, At San Quentin, in 1963, which he recorded live at the San Quentin State Prison. The Johnny Cash Show, hosted by Johnny Cash from 1969-1971, would showcase a variety of musicians, such as Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, and many more.
Johnny Cash had a very interesting, exciting life in and out of his musical career. He was a huge phenomenon and everyone was listening to him at this point in the late 1900s. People who didn’t listen to Johnny Cash were considered foolish because he was fantastic. He had hardships but they made him stronger in every aspect of life and it was very noticeable. The public was impressed with his music and the way he held himself which helped him with his musical achievements.
The Death That Changed Voting On the night of February 18, 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was accompanied by two of his family members, Viola Jackson, his mother and Cager Lee, his paternal grandfather. They attended Zion’s Chapel Methodist Church in Marion, a town in Alabama, for a peaceful voting rights march. State Trooper James Bonard Fowler shot Jackson twice in the abdomen. The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson impacted the lives of many blacks and changed voting rights. Jimmie Lee Jackson was born on December 16, 1938 (#6 “Jimmie Lee Jackson”/Bio.com) in Marion, Alabama (#5 Jackson, Jimmie Lee (1938-1965)).
It was not until he met Audrey Mae Sheppard that he took a turn for the better. He married her on May 26, 1949 and had a son together: Hank Williams Jr. In the same year he married Sheppard he has a number one hit called “Lovesick Blues”. It was a “throwaway rendition of an old show tune he’d pushed to tape at the end of a recording session.”
Introduction The Outsiders is a novel written by S.E Hinton in the first person point of view: that of Ponyboy. The novel follows the conflict between the Socs and the Greasers, two different groups of boys from different classes of society. Ponyboy struggles to fit in throughout the book, juggling right from wrong. While in the church hiding, Ponyboy recites from memory the poem, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’.
He was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His dad left when he was just an infant. Like most of the small population of blacks in the area he lived a life of poverty and toil (Conrads 2). This passage shows he had a tough childhood. When he was young they moved to Pasadena, California
Even though this non-specific heart ailment did not ever suffer any major heart attacks. Even though John Wayne Gacy’s childhood at home was not good during school he was liked by all of his teachers and made friends within his school and boy scout club. As a child John Wayne Gacy was an active child and liked to spend his time outdoors. Growing up and going to 4 different high schools in his senior year John Gacy never graduated from high school. He dropped out to head home to Las
Hook: Would you ever convict an innocent boy who acted out of defense of himself and his friend of murdering person who constantly attacks him? The answer should be no. Background information: Known as his “greaser gang’s” pet, Johnny Cade grew up in a household with no role models. Not only was he constantly bullied at home, he was attacked outside as well. Johnny was continuously being assaulted by Socs looking for trouble and he would never fully recover from the trauma in which he has been through.
Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president in 1974. For two years Carter traveled the country campaigning to be president. His main message was to return honesty to the White House. He wanted to eliminate secrecy in government, and often told people “I’ll never tell a lie”. Carter was able to build a reputation as an outsider to Washington politics which is what the people wanted because of all of the issues that were going on because of the Watergate scandal.
He continues to travel and made more albums that focuses merely on his voice and his own acoustic guitar, and spend time for family and friends. He also talks at length about people who die on his original band including Luther Perkins and Roy Orbison. At the end the author says that he hopes he doesn’t disappoint the fans though they knew that he has aged. He hoped that all of the performers will die on stage, in the middle of a favorite song and surrounded by the loved ones and members of the band. II.