Country star Dolly Parton said she sang to her old duet partner, Porter Wagoner as he lay dying from lung cancer.

A fire has destroyed the Tennessee lakeside home of the late country singer Johnny Cash, leaving little more than brick chimneys and the steel frame.

Ray Charles, a talent who erased musical boundaries between the sacred and the secular with hits such as “What’d I Say”, “Georgia on My Mind” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” died at age 73.

Family and friends paid tribute to music legend Johnny Cash at his funeral today.

Leather jackets and mohawk hair cuts mixed with tuxedos as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened its doors to honour punk rock’s first generation, along with Tom Petty, former teen idol Brenda Lee and Shaft maestro Isaac Hayes.