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Strummer Joe
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21 August 1952 - 22 December 2002
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The son of a British diplomat, Joe Strummer (real name - John Graham Mallor) was born in the Turkish city of Ankara on August 21, 1952. Having settled in London, he changed several schools, later briefly studied at art college. The main hobby of young John was music - rock and reggae, for a time he was a street musician (it was then he took the pseudonym Joe Strummer), and in 1974 became the leader of the group "101'ers", performing pub-rock. The band lasted about two years and managed to release
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The son of a British diplomat, Joe Strummer (real name - John Graham Mallor) was born in the Turkish city of Ankara on August 21, 1952. Having settled in London, he changed several schools, later briefly studied at art college. The main hobby of young John was music - rock and reggae, for a time he was a street musician (it was then he took the pseudonym Joe Strummer), and in 1974 became the leader of the group "101'ers", performing pub-rock. The band lasted about two years and managed to release only one single. In 1976, there was an event that radically changed his life, namely the concert of the Sex Pistols in a London club. Strummer was so shocked that he immediately decided to part ways with the 101 ers. In the shortest possible time, together with friends Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, he organized his own punk band The Clash, which soon became one of the leading bands of British punk. Starting with furious and primitive punk rock, The Clash subsequently expanded their musical range significantly - over time, reggae, ska, funk and even swing appeared in their repertoire. After the collapse of The Clash in 1985, Joe Strummer worked with director Alex Cox - two of Strummer's songs were included in the soundtrack for the film Sid and Nancy (1986), and later starred in his film Walker and a kind of "black" punk western "Right to Hell" (both -1987). In 1989, he released his first solo album, Earthquake Weather, stylistically reminiscent of the later works of The Clash, and in the same year he played a role in Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Train. The following year, he produced the album Hell's Ditch by the famous folk-punk band The Pogues and joined them as vocalist and rhythm guitarist during the tour. After that, Strummer disappeared for a long time and appeared only in the mid-90s as a guest musician on the single "England's Irie" of the group "Black Grape" and as one of the authors of the music for the comedy George Hermitage "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997). In 1999, Joe assembled the accompanying band The Mescaleros, with which he recorded the albums "Rock Art and the X-ray Style" (1999) and "Global a Go-Go" (2001).
Other works of Joe Strummer in the movie - actor: "Rude Boy" (1980, directed by Jack Hazen, David Minghay), "Candy Mountain" (1987, directed by Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer), "I Hired a Contract Killer" (1990, directed by Aki Kaurismäki), "Doctor Chance" (1997, dir.), "Françagher's "Alexpress" (1988), "Alexpressa Rejer" (1987), "Marisa Rejer", "Marisa Rejer" (1987), "Pauseman, "Marissan", "Marisa Rejer" (1987).