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Joe Strummer, né de son vrai nom John Graham Mellor le 21 août 1952 à Ankara et mort le 22 décembre 2002 à Broomfield, est un musicien britannique connu pour avoir été le leader du groupe The Clash, l'un des groupes les plus emblématiques du courant punk. Il a également été chanteur de The Vultures, The 101'ers, et The Mescaleros.

✵ 21. août 1952 – 22. décembre 2002
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“For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.”

As quoted in [Coon, Caroline, w:en:Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2011-09-21, 1977, Hawthorn, London, 0801561299., 79262599, http://web.archive.org/20071026052834/homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html, 2007-10-26]

“When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.”

Interview with Judy McGuire for Punk Magazine in 2001. McGuire, Judy, Joe Strummer Interview, 2001, Punk Magazine http://www.punkmagazine.com/stuff/morestuff/joe_strummer.html,

“I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin.'”

I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

“My motto is, 'What's the hurry?'”

I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

Interview with Corey Levitan for Rolling Stone Online on 2 December 1999. Levitan, Corey, Joe Strummer Considers Clashing In, Rolling Stone Online, News, 2 December 1999 http://www.wholenote.com/default.asp?iTarget=http%3A//www.wholenote.com/news/item.asp%3Fi%3D108,

“I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality”

Lost in the Supermarket, from the album London Calling, 14 December 1979, co-written with Mick Jones.

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