Joe strummer biography book

Please note that I might be ever-so-slightly bias in my review: I have a portrait of Joe Strummer tattooed on my arm, and I still get choked up when I hear his version of “Redemption Song” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GStIB...), even 18 years after he died (though reading the comments below the video reassures me that at least, I’m not the only one crying).

That’s how much I love the man and his work, and how huge an impact he’s had on my life and my mind. And yes, I am aware that he had a bunch of flaws, that he was kind of a tyrant to his bandmates and an absent father to his daughters.

But we are all deluded if we pretend that our heroes are perfect: it’s better to remember that they are human and fucked up too – because that means you can still do great things even if you are a mess.

Chris “Sandwich” Salewicz understands that.

He was a long-time friend of Strummer, and knew him very well, warts and