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Feb 27, 2006 • 1 min read

Cash is top of the (dead) pops

Johnny Cash has been voted the best dead rock star in a survey by US magazine Blender, ahead of Notorious BIG, Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur.

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Johnny Cash has been voted the best dead rock star in a survey by US magazine Blender. Cash, whose status has probably enjoyed a boost from the recent award winning form of his biopic 'Walk The Line', beats other top ten cool dead people such as Biggie, Tupac, Elvis and Jimi Hendrix. Honorary rock star John Peel made it into the list at 36.

Here's the top ten:

Johnny Cash

Notorious BIG

Elvis Presley

Tupac Shakur

John Lennon

Jimi Hendrix

Jerry Garcia

Kurt Cobain

Bob Marley

Ray Charles

Data & Reports Johnny Cash Jimi Hendrix John Peel Notorious BIG Elvis Presley Tupac Shakur
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