26 February

Born in 1932 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor.

Nick Cave tells the story about recording “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with Cash in 2002:

They recorded in the year before Cash’s death, and Cave recalls his frailty. But when the song begins, he says, “…Johnny comes alive. He is quite literally taken by the spirit, as the years fall away and he begins to glow, growing powerful and possessed by some kind of thing and when he starts singing, his beautiful voice just runs right through me like a celestial force…”

Listen here.

Also: Michel Houellebecq