After years of touring, the death of a close friend and the birth of Paul's first ... focus on the Thames, making it the principle influence on the city. The pieces capture the river at various ...

Paul Simonon ... I like his paintings of the Thames. I like their luminosity. While he was painting them, I was writing a book about it called Sacred River, so our interests converged, and ...

Why the Thames? "I’d like to live on the river. I did mention getting a houseboat ... a bolder step instead of just shuffling along." Paul Simonon’s paintings are at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox ...

Paul Simonon's broken Fender Precision bass ... double album The Clash on the London Calling video shoot, on the River Thames, 1979. Image: Pennie Smith The Museum of London's Clash exhibition ...