Tue, 17 April 2007 12:00:00 ET
Barry Gibb would like to remodel Johnny Cash' lake house that had turned to ashes few weeks ago.
Barry Gibb plans to preserve the "sacred" site of
Johnny Cash's home after it burned to the ground last week. The former
Bee Gees - who purchased the lakeside house in Hendersonville, Tennessee in 2006 - says the land where the country singer's home stood should be "protected forever".
Gibb and his wife Linda now plan to build their home on a higher ground away from the scene of the fire last Tuesday (10.04.07). The singer said: "Linda and I have decided to build our own home on the higher ground surrounding the Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash home and the original foundations shall be kept intact and preserved for the people of Hendersonville and the people of Nashville."
Gibb had hoped to remodel the famous glass and wood building on the shore of Old Hickory Lake and eventually write songs there with his wife. The building apparently caught fire after a spark ignited a wood preservative applied to the interior. Gibb paid his respects to the singer's family, saying: "To the Cash Carter families we owe the highest respect and the deepest regret that our dream could not be realized. Now there is a new dream for us and a new beginning." Cash bought the house in 1968 and he and his wife June Carter Cash lived there until their deaths in 2003.
