Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash - Softcover

Needs, Kris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085965348X ISBN 13: 9780859653480

Publisher: Plexus Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

This book provides a personal insight into the life of Joe Strummer, via his closest friends and the band members who knew him best. Exclusive interviewees include Mick Jones, his songwriting partner and lead guitarist of The Clash, and Don Letts, the ex-Big Audio Dynamite member and filmmaker who recorded an extensive series of interviews with Strummer on video.

His life history, his personal passions and politics, and, most of all, his musical influences, are examined from a number of personal perspectives. From the white-hot excitement of the gigs to the fervour of Strummer’s personal convictions, Joe Strummer & the Legend of The Clash gives a full account of the life and times of a true punk pioneer.

From the birth of The Clash during the early days of the UK punk scene in 1976, when author Kris Needs first met the band at their raw fifth gig, to massive success as the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world during the early Eighties all is recounted from the perspective of someone who was there, both as a fan and as a friend.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Journalist, DJ, Production artist and party animal extra-ordinaire, Kris Needs has been at the forefront of all the greatest musical movements of the twentieth century – punk, hip hop and acid house. He’s lived the rock’n’roll lifestyle to the max, but almost didn’t live to tell the tale. He was divorced by his first wife, after being caught in an uncompromising situation with Debbie Harry; he once stayed up for three days on a bender with Keith Richards; he witnessed Sid Vicious learning to play bass; he conducted the last ever interview with Bob Marley and has toured with Primal Scream and The Clash.

About the Author:

Kris Needs is the former editor of the legendary alternative rockzine ZigZag. In the last 25 years, he has conducted the final press interview with Bob Marley, worked as a DJ on the 1990s dance music scene, and enjoyed club success with the record ‘Sugar Daddy’. He is the author of Needs Must, his autobiography, The Scream, a career biography of Primal Scream, and Keith Richards: Before They Make Me Run.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plexus Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 085965348X
• ISBN 13: 9780859653480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352