Joe Strummer

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Joe Strummer (born August 21, 1952 in Ankara , Turkey , † December 22, 2002 in Somerset , England ; actually John Graham Mellor ) was a British punk rock musician . He became known as the co-founder, singer and guitarist of the British punk band The Clash .

Life

Joe Strummer with The Pogues in Japan
Joe Strummer Street in Mokra Gora , Serbia , the coastal village of film director Emir Kusturica

Joe Strummer was born the son of a British diplomat. He had already promised a friend at boarding school that he would one day be a pop star. When he graduated from school, he first went to the Central School of Art and Design in London and later to the Newport College of Art in Wales to become a graphic designer. But the music increasingly took up his time, so that he soon dropped out of his graphic design training and went back to London and joined the squatters in the western part of the city. In the same period he founded the pub rock band "The 101ers", which he left after only one release to switch to the punk band London SS , which from then on called itself The Clash and became famous as such. Strummer sang, wrote and played his Fender Telecaster there , which, in combination with Mick Jones ' special guitar riffs, produced some important punk tracks and London Calling, one of the most successful albums in music history. However, there were always differences between the band members and therefore several changes in the line-up. After the breakup of The Clash, Strummer released his first solo LP Earthquake Weather in 1989 , later he was temporarily the singer of the Pogues as a substitute for the retired Shane MacGowan . In 1995 he accompanied the British Celtic folk punkers The Levellers on their UK Top 12 single "Just The One" on piano. After a long creative break, also caused by quarrels with the record company, his second solo album Rock Art And The X-Ray Style was released in 1999 with his new band The Mescaleros , with which he released another album in 2001: (Global A-Go-Go) . With Johnny Cash he played and sang the Bob Marley classic Redemption Song , which was released on Cash's box set Unearthed in 2003 .

Joe Strummer died completely unexpectedly on December 22nd, 2002 in his house of a congenital heart defect that was undetected during his lifetime . He left behind his wife Lucinda ('Luce') Tait and his two biological daughters Jazz and Lola Mellor, who came from his 14-year relationship with Gaby Salter.

In October 2003 his last album Streetcore was released posthumously .

Numerous bands dedicated songs or entire albums to Joe Strummer, including Beatsteaks , Rancid , GBH , Dropkick Murphys , The Gaslight Anthem and Attila the Stockbroker 's Barnstormer.

In 2006, British director Julien Temple made a documentary about Joe Strummer entitled Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten , which starred Bernie Rhodes , Mick Jones , Topper Headon , Bono , Jim Jarmusch , Johnny Depp , Matt Dillon and others.

The series John from Cincinnati , which started in the USA in 2007, used Strummer's song "Johnny Appleseed" as the title track.

The 2011 live CD "Live on Ten Legs" by Pearl Jam contains the Strummer song "Arms Aloft" from the album "Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore" (2003) as an opener.

Underpass named after Strummer on Edgware Road and Harrow Road

An underpass is named after him in the London borough of Paddington .

In 2013, an arena in Parco Nord in Bologna was named after Joe Strummer.

In 2015, Rolling Stone listed Strummer together with Mick Jones at number 57 of the 100 best songwriters of all time .

Discography

Solo albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1989 Earthquake Weather - UK58 (1 week)
UK 		-
2018 Joe Strummer 001 DE68 (1 week)
DE 		UK30 (1 week)
UK 		-

More solo albums

  • 1986: Love Kills ("Promo 12" MCA Records (MCA-23655))
  • 1987: Walker
  • 1988: Trash City ("Promo 12" Epic Records (EAS 01103))

As Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1999 Rock Art And The X-Ray Style - UK71 (1 week)
UK 		-
2001 Global A Go-Go - UK68 (1 week)
UK 		-
2003 Streetcore - UK50 (2 weeks)
UK 		US160 (1 week)
US

More albums

  • 2012: The Hellcat Years

Video albums

  • 2007: The Future Is Unwritten (UK:goldgold)

Filmography

Strummer 2001

music

actor

  • 1980: Rude Boy
  • 1983: Hell W10
  • 1983: The King Of Comedy
  • 1986: Straight to Hell - Go to Hell (Straight to Hell)
  • 1987: Walker
  • 1988: Candy Mountain
  • 1989: Mystery Train
  • 1990: I Hired a Contract Killer
  • 1997: Doctor Chance

gallery

  • Strummer during a concert

  • Strummer during a concert

  • Strummer's guitar in the Fender Guitar Factory museum

  • Strummer 1984

  • Graffiti in New York

  • Graffiti in Vienna, Austria

  • Graffiti in Rijeka , Croatia (2008)

  • Strummer during a concert

  • Strummer 1999

  • Strummer 2002

literature

  • Antonino D'Ambrosio: Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World . Nation Books, New York 2012, ISBN 9781568587196 .
  • Barry J. Faulk and Brady Harrison (Eds.): Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Work of Joe Strummer . Ashgate, Burlington VT 2014, ISBN 9781472410559 .
  • Chris Salewicz: Redemption Song: The Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer . HarperCollins, London 2007, ISBN 9780007172115 .

Web links

Commons : Joe Strummer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/musik/nachtmix/playback/joe-strummer-100.html
  2. ↑ The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
  4. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
personal data
SURNAME Strummer, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mellor, John Graham (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English punk musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2002
Place of death Somerset , England