As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death | dG1fc3YxMDJob0JEVVU
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00:00 [silence]
00:10 [music]
00:17 All transmitters to pull. All receivers to boost.
00:20 This is London calling. This is London calling.
00:25 [static]
00:27 I was a mouthy little git.
00:29 Riot! Riot! I want a riot! Riot! Riot!
00:33 [music]
00:36 I still can only play all six strings or none,
00:39 which is why I called myself Joe Strummer.
00:42 He was instantly charismatic.
00:44 He said, "I'm going to be a rock star."
00:46 He was right. Money didn't mean anything to him,
00:49 but he did like fame.
00:51 We're not afraid of time. We try hard.
00:53 It was very much being like in a 24-hour gang, you know.
00:57 We only had each other.
00:59 Would you like to interview our manager while he's here?
01:01 He invented punk.
01:03 It's also too much for him.
01:05 If The Clash could do it, you could do it.
01:07 It took us back to the first excitement of hearing rock and roll for the first time.
01:11 Riot! Riot! I want a riot! Riot! Riot!
01:14 [music]
01:20 [music stops]
01:21 I really felt completely destroyed by that experience.
01:25 I had to really disassemble myself and put myself back together.
01:29 No more was I an adolescent.
01:32 And then you meet the 17-year-old guy.
01:34 He's never heard of The Clash.
01:36 And that's the moment that my feet touched the ground again.
01:40 [music]
01:42 Joe, would you like anything under your name?
01:44 [music]
01:46 Punk, rock, warlord. There's warlord gang one way.
01:49 [music]
01:53 [applause]