Fire destroys former home of Johnny Cash

THE home of late country music legend Johnny Cash in Nashville, Tennesee, has burned to the ground in a fire likely fuelled by renovation materials.

The huge lakeside house in Hendersonville, a suburb of the country music capital, went up in flames on Tuesday afternoon as it was being extensively renovated by the new owner, Bee Gees star Barry Gibb, said the Hendersonville Star News.

Only the fireplace was left standing of the mostly wood-built, 18-room house with a round bedroom on Old Hickory Lake, which Cash’s wife June Carter called their Camelot.