Joe Strummer's DEAD!!!! What can I say about 1977 that hasn't been said before? When most people think of Punk, it's a cinch they will think of 1977... We ain't gonna be treated like trash We got one thing We are the Clash What? We are the Clash It's like a patch You can strike that match Back in 1976, a fledgling practice band asks a pub rock star at the unemployment line to join their outfit and a legend is born. What is not told is how this improbable outfit was the work of a crazed svengali, looking to rival his boss' band who were put together to sell blue jeans and bondage gear... Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Joe Strummer were three totally different people from one another and even from their fans and contemporaries... tommy gun you'll be dead when your war is won tommy gun but did you have to gun down everyone? i can see it's kill or be killed a nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled whatever you want, you're gonna get it! Joe Strummer was born in Ankara, Turkey, the son of a Scottish diplomat. /// "Punk legend Joe Strummer of "The Clash" has died, his record company said Monday. He was 50." \\\ They say that to see the Clash in 1977 was to see a band on fire... Very few bands have matched the pure catharsis the Clash embodied in their early days. They were a blur onstage, constantly in motion, fueled by their prodigous speed consumption. Strummer performed like the stage was electrified, spitting and shaking and convulsing. London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls London calling, now don't look at us All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust London calling, see we ain't got no swing 'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing /// "Punk legend Joe Strummer of "The Clash" has died, his record company said Monday. He was 50." \\\ The outrageous antics of the Punk movement attracted the attention of Her Majesty's police and the Clash continually found themselves in and out of the dock on a procession of petty charges. This harassment could not stop them... London's burning with boredom now... London's burning dial 99999 /// "Punk legend Joe Strummer of "The Clash" has died, his record company said Monday. He was 50." \\\ The Clash have been one of the most important political bands in Britain... one of the most coz there have been others too... not the Clash though... they hated and condemned drugs as another means to submission, they took part in riots... they said "evolve oR die"... Yankee detectives Are always on the TV 'Cos killers in America Work seven days a week Joe Strummer died at the age of 50... the cause of his death's still undentified... some say it was a heart attack... No matter what I say about him, about the Clash, will be just words unable to catch the significance, the infuence and the weight this band holds... Rest In Peace, Joe Strummer... We shall remember you... Vel "N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold But i believe in this-and it's been tested by research That he who fucks nun will later join the church" The Clash "Death oR GloRy" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+