Hearing The Clash the first time I thought, this is what the Sex Pistols were trying, without much success, to accomplish.
Strummer (John Graham Mellor) was actually a real musician/songwriter and a fantastic singer with an important message.
I read once how he chose his stage name. His obvious reply to a rock journalist was that what he did was strum the guitar for a living--thus the name. I told this story to the Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor in a bar one time. He, surprisingly, hadn't heard it.
Joe had cleaned up his act when he died too young of a heart attack.
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