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Clash City Jogger - Joe ‘Marathon Man’ Strummer

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joe by masao nakagami

‘It’s one thing to say, “Burn the cars and burn the ghetto”, but you try setting a car alight.’
Joe Strummer

I know in America people think it ridiculous that one
can fight to the death over articles of clothing, but
in these islands it’s a different story. Teddy Boys
were rock ‘n’ rollers, so named after their Edwardian
dress style, and punks came in and took the Teddy Boy
jackets, which were lovely - long, finget-tip length
with moleskin lapels - and ripped them and put safety
pins in them. Johnny Rotten was particularly good at
decorating a jacket. Teddy Boys didn’t like punks
because they thought it was disrespectful what they
were doing to their clothes. Which I suppose it was.
And one summer in 1976 it was fairly dangerous to walk
the streets of London dressed as a punk, especially on
Saturday afternoons on the Kings Road, although you’d
get involved with Teddy Boys on any day, really. It was
their last stand, though, they were blown away by it
all. They were the old thing and Punk was the new and
there was never going to be a real contest.

Joe Strummer

I called myself Joe Strummer because I can only play all six strings at once, or none at all.