Cash fans to get Johnny holiday

JOHNNY Cash fans may soon have February 26 burned, burned, burned into their memories – after his home state voted to name the day after him.

Arkansas is set to make it a holiday to honour the Man in Black, right, nearly 20 years after he died. Its House of Representatives approved a bill that will create a Johnny Cash Day if signed off by the governor.

The Ring of Fire singer’s birthday will not be a legal public holiday but a memorial day, which still means many will get the day off. It is the state’s latest effort to honour the country legend, who was born in Kingsland, a tiny town about 60 miles south of state capital Little Rock.

Funds are also being raised for a statue of him in the US Capitol in Washington.

Cash died in 2003 at the age of 71. His hard-drinking and womanising were captured in the 2005 biopic Walk The Line starring Joaquin Phoenix.