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Keith Levene was a member of the original band. In early September 1976, he was dismissed from the Clash. Strummer would claim that Levene's dwindling interest in the band owed to his supposedly abundant use of speed, a charge Levene has denied. [1] (Levene and John Lydon, of the Sex Pistols, would form Public Image Ltd. in 1978.) He died in 2022.
Before the Clash's founding, the band's future members were active in different parts of the London music scene. Joe Strummer , whose real name was John Graham Mellor, sang and played rhythm guitar in the pub rock band The 101ers , which he had formed in 1974 with Alvaro Pena-Rojas. [ 3 ]
Terence Chimes (born 5 July 1956, Stepney, London, England) [1] is an English musician, best known as the original drummer of punk rock group The Clash.He played with them from July 1976 to November 1976, January 1977 to April 1977, and again from May 1982 to February 1983 both preceding and succeeding his replacement Topper Headon.
The Vultures included three former members of Rip Off Park Rock & Roll Allstars, the original college band co-founded by Terry Earl Taylor. For the next year, Strummer was the band's part-time singer and rhythm guitarist. During this time, he also worked as a gravedigger in St Woolos Cemetery.
Paul Gustave Simonon (/ ˈ s ɪ m ə n ə n /; born 15 December 1955) [citation needed] is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the Clash.More recent work includes his involvement in the supergroup the Good, the Bad & the Queen and playing on the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach in 2010, which saw Simonon reunite with The Clash guitarist Mick Jones and Blur frontman Damon ...
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Clash singer/guitarist Joe Strummer said Headon's drumming skills were a vital part of the band. [3] Tensions rose between Headon and his fellow band members due to his addiction, and he left the band on 10 May 1982, at the beginning of the Combat Rock tour.
After his expulsion from the Clash, Jones was a founding member of General Public, with vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger of the Beat. Though he is listed in the credits of the band's 1984 debut studio album, All the Rage, as a member, Jones left General Public part way through the recording process and was replaced by Kevin White ...