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Posted Jul 13th 2006 7:00PM by TMZ Staff
After being dead for three years, Johnny Cash has again topped the Billboard music charts -- for the first time in 37 years. Interestingly, TMZ did some digging and found out that The Man in Black is not the only artist who has had posthumous albums skyrocket to #1.
Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, was gunned down on a Las Vegas street in 1996 at the peak of his hip-hop career. Since that time, the rapper has released two albums that hit #1 on the charts-- once in 2001 and the other 2005. His mother Afeni Shakur is now controlling the artist's new album releases.
Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls, was killed the following year. 2Pac and Biggie were engulfed in a very heated East vs. West Coast rap war that played out in their music. Biggie had two albums hit #1 following his death -- "Life After Death" and "Born Again."
Seattle band Nirvana, a band fronted by Kurt Cobain, lost its leader to suicide on April 5, 1994. The band released "MTV Unplugged in NY" shortly after the singer's death -- which shot to #1. Two years later, the band released "From the Muddy Banks of Wishkah," which also launched up the charts to #1.
This album success trend doesn't only appear in Generation X artists. Long before those musicians picked up an instrument or microphone, dead celebrities were raking in the album sales; Bob Marley, Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley all had #1 one records after their deaths.
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Tags: 2Pac, Bob Marley, BobMarley, Elvis Presley, ElvisPresley, Janis Joplin, JanisJoplin, Johnny Cash, JohnnyCash, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G, NotoriousB.i.g
Posted Jan 29th 2006 5:10PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reese Witherspoon as singer June Carter in "Walk the Line" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as author Truman Capote in "Capote" won lead-acting awards Sunday from the Screen Actors Guild, while the ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off an upset win over Brokeback Mountain" for the overall cast award.
Rachel Weisz of the murder thriller "The Constant Gardener" and Paul Giamatti of the boxing drama "Cinderella Man" received supporting-acting honors.
"Oh, my God, y'all. Sometimes, I can't just shake the feeling that I'm just a little girl from Tennessee," said Witherspoon, who plays Carter during her long, stormy courtship with country legend Johnny Cash. "I want to say my biggest inspiration for this movie obviously was June Carter. She was an incredible woman."
Hoffman had gushing thanks for his "Capote" co-stars.
"It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other," Hoffman said. "Actors have to have each others' backs. It's the only way to act well is when you know the other actor has your back, and these actors had my back, and I hope they know I had theirs."
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Filed under: Music, Movies, The Biz, Awards/Awards Shows
Tags: cinderella man, CinderellaMan, Crash, johnny cash, JohnnyCash, paul giamatti, PaulGiamatti, philip seymour hoffman, PhilipSeymourHoffman, rachel weisz, RachelWeisz, reese witherspoon, ReeseWitherspoon, SAG Awards, SagAwards, the constant gardener, TheConstantGardener, truman capote, TrumanCapote, walk the line, WalkTheLine
Posted Jan 24th 2006 2:12PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The cameras had gone, so had the crowds. Rosanne Cash had often shared morning coffee with her father in the final months of his life, so the day after he was buried, she took her Starbucks cup to his grave at sunrise to visit him alone. The world had just lost Johnny Cash, the music legend. She lost her dad.
She also lost stepmother June Carter Cash and her mother, Vivian Liberto Distin, who died last May on Rosanne's 50th birthday less than a month after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Always an introspective songwriter as familiar with shadows as light, Cash poured her emotions into music. Her album "Black Cadillac," which goes on sale Tuesday, looks starkly at life and death and her place in one of music's most famous families.
"It's not a tribute record," she told The Associated Press. "I don't want people to think it is. It's an exploration of loss and memory and ancestry and what survives death, but it's my inner perspective."
Her family's celebrity made grief a public as well as private experience. Cash received wonderfully touching letters, and some hurtful ones, too. She'd turn on the television to see a nice tribute, then change the channel to hear people who didn't know what they were talking about speak authoritatively about her dad.
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Tags: Johnny Cash, JohnnyCash, June Carter Cash, JuneCarterCash, Rosanne Cash, RosanneCash
Posted Jan 3rd 2006 12:33PM by TMZ Staff
By KIM CURTIS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FOLSOM, Calif. -- Joaquin Phoenix, whose portrayal of Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line" has made him an early Oscar front-runner, returned Tuesday to the scene of one of the musician's most famous concerts -- Folsom State Prison.
Cash's Jan. 13, 1968, performance in a prison yard cemented his image as working-class hero and became a popular live album. About 54 inmates watched the movie in the Sacramento suburb as the actor and his entourage, including musician Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon Jennings, and a host of prison officials toured the facility.
Phoenix was also expected to perform several songs for the inmates.
The event was organized by Prison Fellowship, a group that runs Bible studies and other educational programs in prisons. Fellowship spokesman Joe Avila said the movie's message would be good for inmates because Cash's "whole life was a message of redemption."
"The movie is about how he screwed it up really bad, and he turned to Jesus Christ to help him change," Avila said.
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Tags: folsom prison, FolsomPrison, joaquin phoenix, JoaquinPhoenix, johnny cash, JohnnyCash, walk the line, WalkTheLine
