After our earlier post on Johnny Cash & Hurt, we felt that it was interesting to post a bit more information. The following information on his dress code might entitle Johnny Cash to be considered the first of the "modern" goths, not just because of the black, but because of why he wore it:
By the early 1970s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in
Black". He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long
black knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes
worn by most of the major country acts in his day: rhinestone suit and
cowboy boots. In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in Black", to help
explain his dress code: "We're doing mighty fine I do suppose / In our
streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes / But just so we're reminded
of the ones who are held back / Up front there ought to be a man in
black."
He wore black on behalf of the poor and hungry, on behalf of "the
prisoner who has long paid for his crime",[68] and on behalf of those
who have been betrayed by age or drugs.[68] "And," Cash added, "with the
Vietnam War as painful in my mind as it was in most other Americans', I
wore it 'in mournin' for the lives that could have been.' ... Apart
from the Vietnam War being over, I don't see much reason to change my
position ... The old are still neglected, the poor are still poor, the
young are still dying before their time, and we're not making many moves
to make things right. There's still plenty of darkness to carry
off."[68] (Originated from Wikipedia)
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