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Interview of Joe Strummer – The Clash (1988)

Night Network, 1988: post-Clash talk

The 1988 Night Network interview shows Joe Strummer after The Clash years, in a long stretch of plain talk. He still carries punk humor and stubbornness, but the tone is more reflective than press-conference sparring.

Strummer discusses legacy pressure, politics, and the need to keep moving as a musician after a band that large. The charm and defiance remain; the conversation also shows him measuring what revolt looks like after the Clash years had ended. It records a transitional phase, between that band and the work that followed.

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