When Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash, was found dead in his home on Dec. 22, 2002, he was only 50 years old. He’d just gotten back from walking his dogs near where he lived in Somerset, ...

Sneering, political and stylistically varied, the Clash's music was a multisided peg that didn't fit comfortably with the primitivism of punk, where it's usually filed. Frontman Joe Strummer wasn't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It was a complete fuck-up,” Joe Strummer told the NME in the summer of 1986, admirably taking the blame. “What you must realize ...

Punk died, the Silver Jews sang, the first time a kid shouted “Punk’s not dead!” The words are never uttered in Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and maybe that’s why you come ...

Inside the winding corridors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, amid newly unboxed DNA synthesizers and other expensive-looking equipment, sits Shannon Johnson. Johnson's decision to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Ely c. 1981: at first he thought Joe Strummer, Mick Jones and Co were ‘scruffy young gents’ who wanted to steal his equipment ...

Built atop a stadium chorus, Strummer sings about economic despair, alienation, and violence in England during the early 1980s. It’s a protest against Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government and ...