Johnny Cash is the only person to have been inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll, Country Music and Nashville Songwriter's Halls of Fame. All his life he challenged the accepted way of doing things and by the time of his death in 2003 he had won respect the world over.

This book is a fitting tribute in the form of a detailed account of his life, a timeline of key moments in his long career, with photographs and portraits, as well as a selection of songs from every phase of his extraordinary musical journey, from Folsom Prison Blues in 1956 to Hurt in 2002.