On this day in 1968, Johnny Cash married June Carter of the folk group The Carter Family. They’d first met 13 years before, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. They’d remain married until Cash’s death in 2003.
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On this day in 1983, the great Billy Fury died of a heart attack aged just 42. The singer’s heart had been damaged when he contracted rheumatic fever as a child.
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