A very young James Brown used to shine shoes & dance for troops for money in Georgia’s Fort Gordon. Coincidentally, blues guitarist Howlin’ Wolf was serving in the Army at that same fort, and the future Godfather of Soul was inspired to pick up a guitar by watching Wolf play every day.

In 1983, Johnny Cash broke two ribs in a full-blown fight with an ostrich at his Tennessee home. “I lost the fight, fair and square,” he later said.

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