Joe Strummer: Comrade, Goodbye
Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, March 2003
SOMETIME IN 1979, I WAS interviewing Joe Strummer for the NME in the Worlds End pub on the King's Road. As well as giving me an update on all things Clashwise in the run-up to London Calling, Joe was getting, as was his wont, all geopolitical on my ass.
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