It happened in Canada: This series on the revolutionaries, luminaries and criminals who have visited the Great White North, was originally published in 2014

At a London, Ont., hockey rink packed with as many as 7,000 stunned Canadians, Johnny Cash had just cemented the most storied romance in country music history.

And according to Cash bassist Marshall Grant, it had all been a terrible, drug-fueled mistake.

“When he proposed to her on the stage in London, he was not straight,” Mr. Grant told a Cash biographer soon after the singer’s 2003 death.