The Clash: Joe Strummer Answers The Call-Up
Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 13 December 1980
WORKING ON THE theory that if you give him enough rope he'll either hang or save himself, the following pages are left basically for the words of Joe Strummer.
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