Rock'n'roll injuries
Johnny Cash is the only country music star ever to wind up in hospital after picking a fight with an ostrich. In 1983, the Man In Black was kicked in the stomach by the belligerent creature, one of many animals he kept on his private farm. It wasn't funny: Cash developed a severe abdominal injury. This in turn led to a dependence on painkillers, and a disastrous descent into addiction following several years relatively clean. Pic: PA Photos
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