The life of rocker Joe Strummer is set to be given new insight with a new family-authorised biography, called Redemption Song. Written by Strummer's friend, journalist Chris Salewicz, the book will ...

In this biography of punk icon Joe Strummer, music writer Salewicz focuses on the heady days of the punk explosion and Strummer's long hiatus after leaving the Clash. Born John Graham Mellor in 1952 ...

The world has been without Joe Strummer for a decade. The co-founder and lead singer of The Clash died Dec. 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed heart defect at just 50 years old. Yet even his most topical ...

Sneering, political and stylistically varied, the Clash's music was a multisided peg that didn't fit comfortably with the primitivism of punk, where it's usually filed. Frontman Joe Strummer wasn't ...

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DICK RUDE, an actor in such cult films as "Repo Man," "Straight to Hell" and "Sid and Nancy" comes to town Saturday to show "Let's Rock Again!," his verite-style documentary on musician Joe Strummer, ...

Joe Strummer was having a typical rock star's day, even doing a promotional interview on April 21, 1982, for the Clash's upcoming shows in Scotland. Then he vanished. Manager Bernie Rhodes reportedly ...