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Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison
It is 45 years since the Country and Western star played his first gig in a high-security jail. But the singer had been interested in prisoners' lives for years. His drummer remembers the day they first set foot in the prison.
Photo: Johnny Cash - BBC.
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