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Joe Strummer and 9/11: My NEW PJM post

September 11, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

If anyone can clear up my recollection in the comments, please do…

If my grasp of Clash lore is still strong, I seem to recall a woman coming up to Strummer when he was wearing that Red Brigade shirt and telling him, “Those people killed my father,” after which, he got rid of it.

I hope that’s true.

I do know that Strummer later distanced himself from those post-9/11 remarks.

I wish that wasn’t true.

Written later and released posthumously, his song “Ramshackle Day Parade” stands as what I suppose he’d prefer to be seen as his “official” thoughts — or more accurately, emotions — on the topic…

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