“If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that…. Because it was not their fault.”

— Joe Strummer

Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)

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