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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts | | Cash cow |
 | | A great deal of the modern Cash-cult can be traced to his supposed artistic rehabilitation that took root in the mid-1990s, when he teamed up with the renowned producer and beard-man Rick Rubin and began the first of four drooled-over albums. |
 | | They undoubtedly have their moments, but let us not forget that Rubin's methods for re-catalysing Cash's brilliance included roping in some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to be his backing group, and covering Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus, surely one of the most crap quasi-religious rock songs ever put on tape. |
 | | Of course, Johnny Cash was a talented, amazingly charismatic man with a fascinating, soap-operatic personal history. |
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