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Conversing with Rudy Wurlitzer: ‘A Beaten-up Old Scribbler’

by Rodger Jacobs

[6.Feb.09] :. My conversations with Rudy Wurlitzer were not unlike a road journey itself with plenty of unplanned side trips along the way.

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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. The Sex Pistols declared that there was “No Future.” The Clash insisted that there was one worth fighting for. The cruelest twist of fate involving the two greatest British punk rock...

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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Rafer Guzman [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. Rock music seems to be producing fewer and fewer icons like Joe Strummer, the lead singer of The Clash who died in 2002. A musician who valued integrity and meaning even while operating inside the...

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EXCLUSIVE Podcasts: Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer

by Sarah Zupko

[12.Jun.07] :. EXCLUSIVE Podcasts: Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer Following in the footsteps of PopMatters’ exclusive five-part series of excerpts from the new Joe Strummer...

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Part 5: On the Other Hand… [1988–1989]

by Chris Salewicz

[25.May.07] :. "Music's got shit, Thatcher became God, ninety percent of the papers are right-wing and brown-nosing." -- Joe Strummer to Carol Clerk in Melody Maker interview.

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The Clash: Combat Rock, ‘80s

by PopMatters Staff

[24.May.07] :. All this week PopMatters is offering exclusive excerpts from the new Chris Salewicz biography of Joe Strummer, published this week in the U.S. by Faber & Faber. Thursday [5/24]:...

Part 4: Anger Was Cooler [1982-1984]

by Chris Salewicz

[24.May.07] :. "(Joe) seemed this sad, lonely figure, confused with life, Hank Williams playing on his ghetto blaster in the background. I felt sorry for him." -- Mark Cooper, Record Mirror

The Clash: London Calling and Sandinista!

by PopMatters Staff

[23.May.07] :. All this week PopMatters is offering exclusive excerpts from the new Chris Salewicz biography of Joe Strummer, published this week in the U.S. by Faber & Faber. Wednesday [5/23]:...

Part 3: Red Hand of Fate [1979]

by Chris Salewicz

[23.May.07] :. Johnny Greene and a roadie... found a rehearsal room... (it) was at the rear of a garage, the kind of premises you might see in American gangster films as heists are planned... Here, hunkered together with no visible means of financial support, the Clash would rigorously write and rehearse the new songs that would emerge as London Calling, which time would judge one of the finest rock 'n' roll albums ever made...

The Clash: 1976-1978

by PopMatters Staff

[22.May.07] :. All this week PopMatters is offering exclusive excerpts from the new Chris Salewicz biography of Joe Strummer, published this week in the U.S. by Faber & Faber. Tuesday [5/22]:...

Part 2: Under Heavy Manners [1976-1977]

by Chris Salewicz

[22.May.07] :. "... people like Joe Strummer... were like the punk intelligentsia, they were the thinkers... (Joe) knew all the cultural and literary references, all the revolutionary references, and he put it all into context... there's a lot more ideas (sic) in one of Joe's rhyming couplets than there are in some people's entire albums..." -- Don Williams

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros

by PopMatters Staff

[21.May.07] :. All this week PopMatters is offering exclusive excerpts from the new Chris Salewicz biography of Joe Strummer, published this week in the U.S. by Faber & Faber. Monday [5/21]: In...

Part 1: Straight to Heaven [2002]

by Chris Salewicz

[21.May.07] :. "...I learned that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all." -- Joe Strummer

Various Artists: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Aarik Danielsen

[15.May.07] :. Evokes the experience of sitting with an old friend discussing music and art, with Strummer more ridiculously hip, politically aware and iconic than any imaginable "old friend".

In Memoriam: Joe Strummer

by Jody Beth Rosen

[22.Mar.07] :. Mere months before he left us to rock that grand casbah in the clouds, Joe Strummer remained a vital rock 'n' roll warrior.

Rude Boy (1979)

by Whitney Strub

[28.Jul.06] :. Rude Boy does little more than remind us of the Clash's greatness; as such, it's a cinematic failure but a musical necessity.

Joe Strummer: Walker

by Zeth Lundy

[21.Oct.05] :. Strummer's soundtrack for Alex Cox's 1987 Western -- his first solo endeavor after the Clash disbanded -- is reissued for the first time since it went out of print.