Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer “was a bit bonkers… but even early on he had this charisma”

Joe Strummer's bandmates in pre-Clash pub rockers The 101'ers remember the singer and guitarist in the new issue of Uncut, dated November 2014 and out now.

The end of The Clash – by Joe Strummer

This month’s issue of Uncut (September 2012, Take 184) features Joe Strummer on the cover – inside is an in-depth exploration of his secret history, after The Clash split up to his redemption in the late ’90s. To complement this, our archive feature this week finds Strummer looking at the demise of The Clash – from their epic Sandinista! album to their bitter disintegration. This excerpt is taken from a longer piece in the September 1999 (Take 28) issue of Uncut. Words: Gavin Martin __________________________________

September 2012

Joe Strummer would have been 60 this month, but imagine him for a moment the way I remember him at 20.
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