Hot on the heels of the announcement of a biopic based on the life of The Clash lead singer Joe Strummer, we get word that the late Strummer’s former Clash bandmates Paul Simonon and Mick Jones are set to produce a film about the making of the band’s legendary album London Calling.
Check out the iconic album cover for London Calling below, which should definitely be used for the movie’s poster.
The Clash’s late great frontman Joe Strummer is going to be the subject of a new biopic.
British movie company Film4 is shepherding the project, entitled Joe Public. Screendaily.com reports that screenwriter Paul Viragh, who wrote the Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, will handle script duties.
No one has been cast in the juicy lead role yet.
A classic in every punk-rock sense of the word, The Clash’s London Calling is turning 30 this month. What better time to re-release one of the greatest, most influential albums of all-time!
London Calling: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition will hit shelves Dec 14th; the package features a remastered version of the 1979 album, a DVD that includes Don Letts’ documentary The Last Testament: The Making of London Calling, three music videos and home movies of the band recording the album in London’s Wessex Studios.
Whoever said the best things in life are free was right. One of the most influential musical acts of our time is The Clash, and according to StrangeGlue, the band’s founder Mick Jones is giving away free copies of his new album with his new band. The Carbon Bubble, was made available via the internet – cover artwork, booklet and all – on Saturday November 14th.
Check out the track listing below…
Perhaps somewhere Joe Strummer is smiling.
Former members of The Clash, Mick Jones and Nicky “Topper” Headon, have ventured into the recording studio together for the first time in almost 30 years.
The occasion? The duo reworked a version of the band’s 1978 song “Jail Guitar Doors” for the charity of the same name. Jones and Headon were joined in the studio by folk singer/activist Billy Bragg and four former prison inmates.
Welcome to week three of “Top 5.” For anyone just tuning in, the game is quite simple: a topic is chosen and then the top 5 songs, albums, artists, that most appropriately fit within the scope of the chosen topic are ordered 1 through 5. If there is an song, album and/or artist that didn’t make the list you think should have, let us know. If you have an awesome idea for a top 5, give us a holla!
The current events this week are both literally and metaphorically down in the dumps. So it seems most appropriate to stay away from such melancholy news and keep it about the music this time around. This weeks top 5 is a list of those albums that everyone, everyone, and I mean everyone who claims to be a music enthusiast absolutely, without a doubt, 100% loves.
