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20 de may. de 2022 · Mick Jones and Paul Simonon on The Clash’s “Combat Rock,” 40 Years Later. Remembering the band's beloved fifth LP on its big anniversary. By Jeff Slate. May 20, 2022 6:00 am. The Clash's fifth album turns 40 this week. Pennie Smith.
23 de ago. de 2012 · There was Mick Jones, an unabashed guitar hero who looked like Keith Richards' uppity younger brother; Joe Strummer, a manic, pompadoured troubadour with sloganeering Tourette's; Paul...
He met Mick Jones in 1976, and six months later the Clash was formed when Joe Strummer joined, with Jones on lead guitar. Simonon learned his bass parts by rote from Jones in the early days of The Clash and still did not know how to play the bass when the group first recorded.
1 de jul. de 2020 · The official statement, released September 10, 1983, was brief and blunt: ‘Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon have decided that Mick Jones should leave [The Clash]. It is felt that Jones drifted away from the original idea of the group...’
When Jones was 21, he and Paul Simonon were introduced to Joe Strummer by Bernie Rhodes in a squat in Shepherd's Bush. The band rehearsed in a former railway warehouse in Camden Town and the Clash was formed. Jones played lead guitar, sang, and co-wrote songs from the band's inception until he was fired by Strummer and Simonon in 1983.
25 de abr. de 2023 · The Clash story starts in late 1976 when you accompanied a friend to an audition for Mick Jones’s group The London SS. Yeah, they asked me to sing [Jonathan Richman’s] Roadrunner and [The Standells’] Barracuda: “I’m a young barracuda, don’t mess with me…” or whatever.
While recording the album in New York, Mick Jones lived with his then-girlfriend Ellen Foley. Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon stayed at the Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street, a building famed for being the home of actor James Dean for two years during the early 1950s.
