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Stephen Dalton

"If you stormed in here and said the new record was rubbish, I would probably quit": Joe Strummer's struggle after The Clash

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“When big money moves in, big money doesn’t fuck around...”.

It’s the autumn of 1999 and Joe Strummer is in the kitchen of his Somerset home rapping about the perils of rock superstardom. “I don’t know whether I could have hacked it. One of the reasons The Clash broke up was we saw what The Who were like at the end of their tether. It’s a bad scene. You very quickly turn into nothing. I’ve enjoyed my life because I’ve had to deal with all kind of things, from failure to success to failure again.

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