One day the members of the Clash were playing football. The group's chief flunky took the chance to size up their personalities. Here's his view of Joe Strummer, the Clash's front man, co-songwriter and chief keeper of beautiful dreams. “Well-meaning and tried hard,” the flunky remembered, “but wasn't very good.” The flunky was explicit that this judgment applied to Strummer the man, not just the football player. One can see the fellow's point. Strummer shocked respectable opinion by putting the name of a notorious terrorist gang on his t-shirt, but he got the spelling wrong. He was that kind of guy.
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