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‘What The Clash would have been like without Joe Strummer’

October 16, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Writes the loyal 5FF reader who sent in this video.

Mick is smiling because he gets to wear track pants without getting yelled at.

Actually, I hear a lot of “Joe” in those lyrics, although he’d have made them way more florid:

(He usually wrote about “England,” too, not “Britain.”)

“That’s it. We’re not gonna be The Gentlemen anymore…” — I couldn’t do something like this without laughing:

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