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The Man In Black, Johnny Cash, Uncovered in these Little Known Facts

Trista December 27, 2018 12 min

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down — A photograph of Johnny Cash with a cigarette. Blogspot.

18. Cash Was Addicted to Drugs and Alcohol

Cash performing in Bremen, West Germany, in September 1972. Heinrich Klaffs/Wikimedia Commons.

Johnny’s lifelong addictions to drugs and alcohol began in the 1950s, at the same time that his career was taking off. As such, he cultivated a “bad boy,” outlaw image that he would never be able to dispense of, despite his gospel records and induction to the Gospel Hall of Fame.