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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...

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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]:...

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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...

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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...

Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer

 

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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]:...

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Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer Feature

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

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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

 
 
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