Profile: Remembering Joe Strummer, lead singer of The Clash, who died Sunday at the age of 50

From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: December 23, 2002| Author: ROBERT SIEGEL | Copyright information


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12-23-2002

Profile: Remembering Joe Strummer, lead singer of The Clash, who died Sunday at the age of 50

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

One of the pioneers of punk rock died yesterday. Joe Strummer was the lead singer of the British band The Clash. The Clash was perhaps the most influential of the British new wave groups. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that The Clash was as important to ...

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