Johnny Cash
Career
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 suits and cowboy boots. In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to help explain his dress code:
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