Joe Strummer

...the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).

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...keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). Norah also joined forces with several notable songwriters on The Fall, including Ryan...

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...James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). The Brit songbird, who became a major star in the R&B/pop world with the release of 2007's...

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...time I thought I was cool, but now I look back and think I was a twat." Shortly before his great friend Joe Strummer died, the musician had had enough of him. "He was going, 'Ignore him. Everybody ignore Damien. He'll go away.' I was just...

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...who stuck with me: Sly Stallone has always been a good friend to me. Stevie Jones - he's a good man. Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Joe Strummer - God rest his soul - from The Clash: they were my guys. And we had a great time." And Rourke...

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Blue and white riot: Joe Strummer, painted by Damien Hirst If you had your portrait taken by Rankin, would you turn round and destroy it? Didn't think so. And yet, that's exactly what 73 musicians have done for Destroy Rankin, part of the...

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...Beck and R.E.M. Guitarists Marc Ribot and Smokey Hormel have performed on records by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer. Keyboardist James Poyser has contributed to records by Erykah Badu, Al Green and Common, and is a...

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...York, though the instrumentation brings out more of a Western country feel than ever. Taha's brusque, gritty vocals recall Joe Strummer (he's still best known for his Saharan punk cover, Rock El Casbah) and Tom Waits, although he's rather...

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But some deaths are still surprises, especially as one grows older and watches the totems of his youth do the same. So the news of Joe Strummer's death in 2002 at age 50, the result of a congenital heart defect, was chilling. That the...

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...the air out of its own balloon by firing him that very year. Five years and several variations on the lineup later (including Joe Strummer of the Clash), the band was done, seemingly for good. Posted on Wed, Oct. 21, 2009 10:15 PM Playing...

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