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Strummer, who died in 2002, is not the first musician to have an animal named after him. For example, in June 2013, scientists named an ancient, giant lizard after the “ lizard king ” Jim ...
It was great to have Joe Strummer back, even if he sold "London Calling" to Jaguar. Now he's gone, reminding us that rock doesn't matter anymore.
Eddie Vedder has shared a cover of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros's 'Long Shadow' in tribute to what would have been the punk icon's 70th birthday.
WHAT’S to like about Joe Strummer, I wondered? Yes, I’ll admit it – until last week I knew basically nothing about the Clash, other than that “Rock the Casbah” was a m… ...
Joe Strummer, one of the most articulate voices of the British punk scene of the late 1970s, died of a heart attack on December 22, 2002, aged 50. With his band The Clash, he helped forge a ...
Julian Temple, who lived near punk rocker Joe Strummer, tries to capture the late musician's spirit. A special tribute from a friend and neighbor - Los Angeles Times ...
Joe Strummer's Life After Death They were called "the only band that matters." In the late 1970s and early '80s, The Clash pioneered punk rock — then went on to expand its possibilities in witty ...
Joe Strummer often spoke of reissuing the lone album from his mid-Seventies pre-Clash band, the 101ers.But the punk legend’s untimely death of a heart attack in 2002 gave the project a new ...
In honor of what would have been his 70th birthday next month, late Clash co-founder Joe Strummer will be celebrated with the boxed set Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, which rounds up his ...
“Tennessee Rain” is the only song on Strummer 001 from the remarkable Latin-jazz-meets-spaghetti-Western score that Joe—a musician of limited technical proficiency—somehow composed for Walker.
Joe Strummer 001 looks to be a more modest affair than that package in every way except the actual music it contains, covering the complete cross-section of Strummer's solo musical development ...