The Prefect Who Rocked the World From: The Washington Post | Date: December 24, 2002| Author: Desson Howe | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Joe Strummer wasn't Joe Strummer when I met him.

That was in the late 1960s, in England. He was John Mellor, a thin- lipped, sarcastic prefect sitting in his study. The younger students had big collective rooms for their homework. But prefects had private rooms, which they'd share with one or two senior colleagues. He was older than I was -- 17, I suppose. I was 11 or so, a new student at the City of London Freemen's School in Ashtead, Surrey, and a so- called "grub." I had been sent u...

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