James Arwine ©Stars and StripesFrankfurt, Germany, November, 1977: Country music legend Johnny Cash talks to a reporter backstage at Frankfurt's Festhalle. Cash — who served in the U.S. Air Force in Europe in the early 1950s — was battling a sore throat, but still played for two hours for an audience that contained many U.S. servicemembers.

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