Don't think the cause of death's been announced yet - the Beeb have it down as 'more to follow' but Joe Strummer is with us no more.
The good die young, eh? Well, young'ish.
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Its on the front page of the NME website...apparently he's thought to have died of a heart attack.
just heard... unbelievable... can't get my head around it...
BBC Online:
never a dull moment. never. always sharp, always miles ahead of the chasing pack. christ! I know there are those who would have longed for one more tour at least. it will now, never happen. christmas time will now be a sad one. goodnight sweet prince.
Very sad and I'm bummed. Saw the news on a newsgroup, but couldn't find anything on internet news sites last night, hoping it was just a mistake. 
RIP Joe :(
oh man, I was just floored when I saw the headline on Yahoo News. He was too young......
RIP Joe
I think I'll be listening to London Calling later on tonight, after I get off work. Much sympathy to his family.
Fucking sad news indeed. What a month - first Mary Hansen from Stereolab, now Joe Strummer from the Clash. Double whammy, double sadness....
:(
Let just hope this will send a message to our guys to keep in shape and cease usage of any illicit stuff 
I also played "London Calling" tonight as a little tribute to him. I was almost forgetting how good this record is.
I had so much respect and admiration for him and he is a real loss to the music.
I feel the same way about him as I do with Jam Master Jay. It's hard when you see your generation snuff it.
R.I.P.
DKS
I knew the storm we had here on sunday meant something. the rain were tears from above and the thunders were the noise of his guitar. joe strummer was entering in heaven...
God Bless Mr Strummer
Never got into The Clash till a few years ago, but they take up a large part of my collection.....Joe will be missed.
Had a signed backstage pass sent to me in 1980 when I'd just come out of a long coma following a motorcycle crash. Sadly ironic that now I'm here and he's gone.
An important guy, an important band, who I felt were never accepted as 'true' punks by some at the time. There was a lot of inverted snobbery back then.
A sad loss....
Originally posted by Spotnick Let just hope this will send a message to our guys to keep in shape and cease usage of any illicit stuff
Erm excuse me but your jumping to some very wrong conclusions here. Scott Shields, who was the original bassist in Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, is a friend of mine, we went to school together.. Less than a year ago we were discussing drugs and I asked him what Uncle Joe's narcotic of choice was. He assured me that nowadays he touches nothing stronger than red wine.
Slightly offensive to suggest otherwise IMHO.
Originally posted by Grahame Ferguson > Originally posted by Spotnick> Let just hope this will send a message to our guys to keep in shape and cease usage of any illicit stuff
Erm excuse me but your jumping to some very wrong conclusions here. Scott Shields, who was the original bassist in Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, is a friend of mine, we went to school together.. Less than a year ago we were discussing drugs and I asked him what Uncle Joe's narcotic of choice was. He assured me that nowadays he touches nothing stronger than red wine.
Slightly offensive to suggest otherwise IMHO.
yes, but what about the past? drug abuse sooner or later seriously demages your health even if you stop using them. in fact I read that when you take a large quantity of drugs for a large period of time it´s worst stopping suddenly than continuing taking less and less. because somehow your body gets used to the drug´s effects. and when you stop taking them, as your body has stopped producing all that substances since you replaced them with external ones, some vital stuff begins to die quickly. I think that´s what nic meant to say about the drug abuse and our idols. we know they used to take a lot of drugs. we don´t know if they really stopped or not but in one way or another their lives are in danger because of that abuse, even if they don´t do drugs anymore. I hope nothing bad happens to them, anyway.
Originally posted by almanso > Originally posted by Grahame Ferguson> > > > Originally posted by Spotnick> > Let just hope this will send a message to our guys to keep in shape and cease usage of any illicit stuff
Erm excuse me but your jumping to some very wrong conclusions here. Scott Shields, who was the original bassist in Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, is a friend of mine, we went to school together.. Less than a year ago we were discussing drugs and I asked him what Uncle Joe's narcotic of choice was. He assured me that nowadays he touches nothing stronger than red wine.
Slightly offensive to suggest otherwise IMHO.
yes, but what about the past? drug abuse sooner or later seriously demages your health even if you stop using them. in fact I read that when you take a large quantity of drugs for a large period of time it´s worst stopping suddenly than continuing taking less and less. because somehow your body gets used to the drug´s effects. and when you stop taking them, as your body has stopped producing all that substances since you replaced them with external ones, some vital stuff begins to die quickly. I think that´s what nic meant to say about the drug abuse and our idols. we know they used to take a lot of drugs. we don´t know if they really stopped or not but in one way or another their lives are in danger because of that abuse, even if they don´t do drugs anymore. I hope nothing bad happens to them, anyway.
Fair play Alamanso. Their are however a variety of different opinions on the long term affects of narcotics. But lets not get into that here. This is a thread about the great Joe Strummer. His passing has been the first rock n' roll death which has touched me on a personal level. Was too young around the time of Curtis' demise.
