NME has partially redeemed the recent sorry state of its website with it's tribute to Cash; particularly accurate and affecting, to me, is the end:
"It’s fitting that ‘Hurt’, honoured with a Grammy and at the MTV Video Music Awards, will be remembered as his swansong. He took Nine Inch Nails' confused paean to drug addiction and made it a King Lear-like rage at the dying of the light.
It takes a heart of stone not to cry big wet tears watching it and thinking about Cash, the legend now gone. He will never be bettered. "
"It’s fitting that ‘Hurt’, honoured with a Grammy and at the MTV Video Music Awards, will be remembered as his swansong. He took Nine Inch Nails' confused paean to drug addiction and made it a King Lear-like rage at the dying of the light.
It takes a heart of stone not to cry big wet tears watching it and thinking about Cash, the legend now gone. He will never be bettered. "
