So, what is the true meaning and inspiration behind “London Calling” by The Clash? It all comes down to Joe Strummer’s obsessive tendency to read the news. We might doom scroll today ...

This month’s issue of Uncut (September 2012, Take 184) features Joe Strummer on the cover ... discipline that had charactersied the London Calling sessions. “That tour of America, we ...

To mark what would have been Joe Strummer's 66th ... Jones - an old friend of Strummer's from art school in Newport - chronicled the history of Strummer's pre-Clash band, the 101ers.

Punk pioneer Joe Strummer of The Clash ... rounding off a tour in Liverpool. The Clash were known for injecting left wing politics into punk and their album London Calling was named the best ...

John Lydon has shed light on why he hated Joe Strummer‘s “fake angst ... “You can see devolution. ‘London Calling,’ I mean come on, that’s a song about a fire brigade.” ...

One afternoon in February, he was sitting at home in Redfern when “some Pommie bloke rings up and says he’s Joe Strummer from The Clash”. The band were on a ten-date national tour. London Calling, ...

Pedestrian tunnels that were known as the Joe Strummer subway in honour of ... He said: “One of the famous songs of The Clash [London Calling] talks about ‘London’s drowning’.