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Revisiting the day Joe Strummer died in 2002

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.
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook John Graham Mellor, better known as Joe Strummer, outspoken frontman of pioneering British punks ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Punk Rock Museum is celebrating the life and legacy of The Clash frontman and co-founder Joe Strummer. He died in 2002 after he returned home from walking the dog, collapsed, ...
The world has been without Joe Strummer for a decade. The co-founder and lead singer of The Clash died Dec. 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed heart defect at just 50 years old. Yet even his most topical ...
Today would have been Joe Strummer’s 60th birthday, but he passed away in December 2002 of a heart attack, days before Christmas. He left behind a wife and three daughters, plus thousands of years of ...
“My hero is Bo Diddley because he was playing on a street corner and knew that he needed something else,” said Strummer in 2002. “He wasn’t the fretsman in the world, so he went to a junkyard and got ...
Joe Strummer‘s work outside of the Clash will be collected in the new compilation Joe Strummer 001, featuring rare and unreleased recordings by the late rocker. The compilation – which features ...
If Joe Strummer had never done anything outside of the Clash, that would’ve been enough. That band, they’re one of the absolute Greats, one of those groups that is so iconic and influential that ...
Joe Strummer died quietly in his sleep on December 22, surprising to the last. As the leader of the primal punk outfit the Clash, he knew what the perfect rock band should be and lived when he could ...