Bee Gee Barry Gibb buys home of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees has purchased the home where Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived for 35 years.
Gibb and his wife, Linda, bought the rustic retreat on Old Hickory Lake for an undisclosed amount, a lawyer for the Cash family said Wednesday. Hendersonville is 21 kilometres northeast of downtown Nashville.
“This place will always be the spiritual home for the Cashes,” Gibb said. “My wife, Linda, and I are determined to preserve it, to honour their memory. We fell in love with it; it’s an incredible honour for us. We plan to use the home to write songs because of the musical inspiration.”
The 1,290 square-metre home and 1.8-hectare property was purchased by Balinda LLC, a Florida company owned by Gibb and his wife, according to Nashville lawyer Robert L. Sullivan, who administers the Cash estate for the family.
The house, visited by everyone from U.S. presidents to ordinary fans, went on the market in June with an asking price of $2.9 million US. The price was lowered this fall to $2.5 million.
Cash died in 2003, soon after the death of June Carter Cash. His hits include Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line.
The Bee Gees are best known for their hits of the disco era in the late 1970s such as Jive Talkin’ and Night Fever.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)
I mean, this kinda trumps Shania in a Ramones shirt, no?
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)
i'm not sure what it is the last two sentences say.
but i do love the idea of the falsetto singer buying the baritone singer's house. it kinda averages out, doesn't it?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)