The great JoeStrummer was born 70 years ago today. We ranked his best songs that weren't with the Clash
’s supergroup the Good, the Bad & the Queen. But Joe Strummer seemed to restlessly bounce around from one project to another: continuing to seek out international sounds, spending more time scoring films than recording albums. After forming the Mescaleros in 1999, he was making some of the best music of his post-Clash career.
Strummer died of a heart attack in 2002, but he would’ve turned 70 on August 21st this year. To mark the occasion, let’s look back at his 10 best non-Clash songs.Before he became Joe Strummer of the Clash, he was “Woody” Mellor of the 101ers, fronting a rockabilly-flavored pub rock band nicknamed after his folk music hero Woody Guthrie.
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