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joe strummer and his telecaster

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joe strummer working as a grave digger at st woolos cemetery, newport, wales. apparently, he was too week to actually dig graves, and instead rolled the barrel around and picked up garbage around the site

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joe strummer and his older brother david

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joe strummer in sounds magazine on december 27 1980

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the clash (plus sex pistols and the heartbreakers) in rock scene magazine, during the anarchy tour in 1976. these photos include rob harper, who was the clash's drummer for only a month.

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paul and joe with paul smith of subway sect before their show on september 20th 1976

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excerpt from record mirror on 23 april 1977, after the clash were advertised to play at the roundhouse, but later replaced by generation x. according to bernie rhodes, john cale was "not radical enough", and the clash didn't want to tour with him anymore.

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the clash chosen as the #1 album of 1977 in best magazine

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paul simonon's handwritten tracklist of the clash's first album

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promo for the release of the clash's first album on april 8 1977

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happy birthday to the clash's first album! released on this day (april 8) in 1977 in the uk

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crucial questions: is this simonon in this pic? caption says its him, a comment says its geldof

WELL NOW YOU GOT ME WONDERING. someone in the comments said they did analysis of their earlobes and said it's geldof sooo you know. i guess that's right HOWEVERR

geldof in 1970 ish and simonon in 1980ish

i would say they have. similar noses but geldof's is the most similar to the og picture .. don't wanna get on the ears yet because paul is older here and his ears kind of got bigger. i'd say simonon's jaw is the most similar but again he was a couple years older in this pic

geldof in 1980ish and simonon in 1977

judging by the hair it's much more similar to geldofs in the 70s rather than paul (at least in this picture) the eyebrows and ears are also pointing to geldof (darker and thicker eyebrows and bigger ears)

also this picture has paul smiling but his nose doesn't curl down like the og picture soooo.... i come to the conclusion it's bob.... anyone else got ideas???

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the clash on their 16 tons tour in 1980

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article on joe strummer's hepatitis in nme on feb 25 1978

So I stepped off the plane from sunny, healthy California expecting The Clash to be phenomenal live — and they were. And if Joe Strummer performs even better when he isn’t yellow and about to go into hospital .. well, I can’t see how that’s really possible.

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the clash article in melody maker on january 26th 1980