Joe Strummer interview to Andy Kershaw, Radio1, Manchester, October 1999

Today I feel obliged to pay homage to Joe Strummer who, although he has left us 5 years ago, his mentality, morality and talent remain a shining light. This latest upload is an Andy Kershaw's broadcast in Radio 1, Manchester, in October 1999 (just before the release of Rock Art and the X-Ray Style), where Joe participated as guest dj and of course was interviewed by Kershaw. Here, you will find out, how Strummer discovered reggae, his occupation before his music career, why he didn't want a Clash reunion, what he did during his years of silence, how the Clash wrote White Man In Hammersmith Palais etc. Moreover, the broadcast is full of reggae and world music gems (chosen by both Kershaw and Strummer) from the Tennors, Rokia Traore (session recordings especially for this broadcast), Wendo Kolosoy, Los Super Seven, Andres Landero y su Conjunto, Tommy Collins (the essential drop of country with Tilt Me A Little Toward Tilly) Ihashi Elimhlophe, Toots & the Maytals, El Gran Silencio, Rasha and Prince Buster. All selections highlight the heavy influence that reggae and world music had on Strummer compositions. Of course, songs by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Clash and the Pogues couldn't be absent.

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