Alas, Joe Strummer was like me

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: December 29, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

It's rarely a good idea to rush into print with a heartfelt tribute when your hero dies. Clive James is probably still blushing about his New Yorker eulogy to Diana, Princess of Wales, written within hours of her death. And I fear the rock-journalist-turned- magazine-editor James Brown may come to regret the front-page piece that appeared under his name in The Independent last week, the day after Joe Strummer, the frontman of The Clash, died of a heart attack at the age of 50. He was shell-shocked, he wrote. Clash songs such as Career Opportunities gave teenagers more inspiration than any ...

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