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Joe Strummer's Life After Death. December 20, 2012 • 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 ...
Joe Strummer, who brought punk attitude and politics to one of the most significant bands in rock 'n' roll history, the Clash, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Somerset, England. He ...
Joe Strummer at Lookout Mountain, Los Angeles. 1989. Josh Cheuse . Joe Strummer, The Clash’s iconoclastic frontman, would have turned 70 years old today, which is as hard to imagine as it is sad ...
Filmmaker Julien Temple went to great lengths to avoid anything even close to a cliche in making his documentary biography of his old friend Joe Strummer of the Clash, "Joe Strummer: The Future Is ...
In 1977, on The Clash's debut single, White Riot, vocalist/guitarist Joe Strummer sang about wanting “a riot of my own” . He wouldn't have to wait terribly long to get one. In fact, before the ...
Legendary punk rocker Joe Strummer, singer-guitarist of the Clash, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Broomfield, England. He was 50.
Rock musician Joe Strummer, whose band the Clash helped bring punk rock into the mainstream and expanded the genre’s artistic range, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home in Broomfield ...
A recent release from Epitaph Records, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years offers listeners a great opportunity to experience the extent of his musical diversity. Put together in ...
The Clash‘s Joe Strummer chronicles the violence, racism and institutional corruption of 1980s England on his ragged demo for “This Is England,” set to appear on the late guitarist’s ...
Strummer Left The 101ers Before Their Debut Single Was Released. The 101ers were performing in different clubs around London. On April 3, 1976, a new band opened the show at The Nashville Room.
Joe Strummer, the snarling, Cockney-accented, bitingly intelligent lead singer for British punk-rock legends the Clash, died Sunday, according to the Associated Press. He was 50 years old. No ...