R.I.P. Joe. You changed my life and helped mold me into the man I am. Your music will continue to inspire, inform, and motivate people forever. There will never be another like Joe.
Yeah, Joe was one of a kind a really, really nice guy toO this interview annoys the shit out of me because the guy who’s interviewing Joe talks way too much. He interrupts Joe way too much and good interviewers let the person talk and they don’t interrupt the person being interviewed and this guy does it pisses me off.
@@shuddupeyaface I disagree. Joe started out speaking 'nicely' because he's from a middle class family, but not upper class. He's just had to shake it off to live in the real world. Just like Ian Dury had to.. who was from a mixed middle and working class background.. Well you would wouldn't you? I know plenty of people who sounded like well brought up middle class kiddies but lost it along the way - it doesn't make them fake, it makes them more real, IMO because they subconsciously knew that in order survive out there and to be fully human, you would have to loosen up your speech a bit. Nothing wrong with it... no different from pciking up an American accent or whatever. Joe was a gem of a human being, full of contradictions, far from perfect, but ultimately very humble and kind... end of story
he never pretended to be working class, he was always open about his roots. i'm working class and i don't care what his background was i just care that his music means so much to me, at least he never reformed the clash for money like lydon did with the pistols
***** Nah man I was not joking, being an American the Clash were big over here,now The Sandinista Album did get trashed over here(I liked it though) and I know for a fact I waited for a Clash reunion that never came(I even bought "Cut The Crap",so I settled for BAD and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros,but I am not joking when I read your statement about how the Clash was dissed in England..I still say wow.And with social media not really being a thing back then ,news was not so easily available back then.
Look around today for any artist with a sliver of the talent this guy has. My hero. Saw him twice with the Mescaleros. We all miss you, Joe. Strummer/Jones, Lennon/McCartney…best ever.
To the discerning eyes and ears isn’t that jimmy savile masquerading as Joe strummer, allegedly? even the mole on the corner of his mouth, the voice and facial structures including ears are identical.
People here slagging the interviewer, but I think he's good - he clearly knows what he's talking about, and I think he's got a bit of backbone and asking some pretty interesting questions. It's better than having Jools Holland, Mojo or Uncut backslapping, asking the same old boring questions about London Calling and talking 'bout them good old days, it's interesting to see Joe thinking on his feet. This is really interesting, fair play to the interviewer, and long live Joe Strummer! VIVA JOE!
Back in the late 80s London media land it was how you looked and dressed that counted more than ability. Style over content. This interviewer is clearly inexperienced and nervous which means he blows it and no amount of retro leather armchairs or fancy lighting is going to save him. Joe puts up with it, as he looks like he is missing the attention at this stage of his career.
Great interview with my favorite all-time singer and lyricist! Yeah, the interviewer seems to be baiting Joe a bit with some passive-aggressive games, but at least he's fairly well-informed about Joe and The Clash, so there's some depth to the interview that is often lacking in other interviews I've seen of Joe. Definitely not a typical softball celebrity interview.
I was at the Tabanacle in Ladbroke Grove. Traveled from New Zealand to the UK and got lucky to see Joe and his Rockabilly War band doing their Rock Against the Rich tour stop at this little church that had a rehab/homeless person thing happening downstairs. Great gig and thanks to Joe's girlfriend who went back out to get me after I'd asked if she could put me on the invite list cause it was a sold out gig. Incredible night and here in remote NZ we needed great humans like Joe to look up to.
The late, great and sadly lamented Mr Joe Strummer; taken from us way too early. RIP Joe, and thanks for the fabulous legacy of music you left behind for us to enjoy. Great interview; thanks for uploading - liked and subscribed.
I saw this live on tv and my younger brother bought that compilation and there was so many good bands to catch up on as a teen it put the clash in my head forever. Its a shame other compilations came out after and this one is now more difficult to find than others but oh well. Joe you lived well and gave it all, as Steve Jones said "he weren't a phony" and i agree. But were's the Joe Strummers of today? They must exist somewhere....
Thanks for posting. Always great seeing rarities from that period of Joe's career when he produced some of his greatest and most underrated work. Interviewer a bit of a knob but hey, you can't have everything!
AH , ONE OF ME HEROES......SAW EM ALOT IN LATE 70S/ EARLY80S....GREAT LIVE [3 HOUR GIGS].....JOE A FLAWED GENIUS/ HYPOCRITE / WITH A HEART OF GOLD......SANDINISTA !
The Story of The Clash is one of the best greatest hits albums ever due to The Clash picking the tracks & it turns out to be better than the singles album.
Strummer should have punched the show's host out cold. The number of times he was interrupted in mid-thought by the interviewer's inane and often insulting comments is ridiculous. Even given that this was from a late-night Channel Four programme from the late '80s, this is terrible.
I thought they interviewer was just fine. He did his research - or knew his stuff - and poses questions to Joe as per views that were to be seen in the media or the public at the time. Don't blame him for it, I think he did a fine job. And why shouldn't interviewers talk over the subjects just a little bit? You don't have to be submissive, and I really doubt Joe was that egotistical as to be bothered by it. Anyway, a "chat" can often be far more insightful than shooting questions at a person and then sitting back and expecting them to do all the work. And wasn't Joe very insightful? Excellent interview! Sheesh, people! Anyway great interview, thanks for uploading.
The interviewer sucks, as others have mentioned. But it shows what a genuine good man Joe was, besides being the best front man in rock and roll. Great God, I miss him!
Great interview (that was his style, used to watch him on Night Network - this actually works here) - shame you faded on the video, never seen the video for Trash City.
The world could sorely use a Rock Against the Rich gig these days. Problem is, who'd they get to promote it? And would anyone even turn up? Even in these recessionary times, it seems there's very little opposition to capitalism. I guess we're all way more consumerist than we were back in '88 (and we were really bad back then)
Wow, very cool : ) I have never seen this and it would be in the year 1994 that I would purchase The Story Of The Clash, finally learning more about this group and, at the same time, purchase The Punk Rock Movie, and make new discoveries : ) Thank you, MrFish7 : ) ♪♪♪♪
Didn't like the interviewer. Arrogant, condescending and never gave Joe an opportunity to speak at length. Shame on him. Joe however shone through as a great man. RIP Joe. Love you bro
'Walker' was a brilliant soundtrack - Joe should've done more, but it sounds like at this point in time he was more seduced by thoughts of being an actor or being anywhere in proximity to the thrill of movie production, next up was his Jim Jarmusch period. Alex Cox circa '88 was being hyped as the next big thing but never really came up with a decent movie, however, the Walker soundtrack travelled with me as aural companion to many places round the globe and still stands up as a really eclectic collection of music. Joe was a one off and here as ever he is wonderfully articulate and insightful.
This interviewer deliberately joins the ranks of Bill Grundy and Tom Snyder and many other forgotten errand boys who had a brush with greatness but were too self absorbed to really dig in and get to the good stuff. Worth it to see Joe though. RIP Joe Strummer.
It's a bit cringe how the reporter is trying to catch him for being some kind of a sell out just because they released a compilation. They weren't just soapbox agitators, they made awesome music as well and deserved a paycheck for that.
On the rock against rich tour, Joe was such a gentleman that he loved the band , one style mdv and actually got in their van to talk and I understand he ordered them a hotel room . If he had lived One Style MDV May well have toured with Joe that’s how much he loved the young reggae bands music, he genuinely thought they were the dogs b*******
This is just like a different kind of Grundy episode - instead of the swearing, you get boots over the sofa, over the coffee table. It's stronger than sneering and swearing for that matter - you just smear the dirt of the street all over the place. Strummer knows he's talking to a well trained blabbermouth, but he couldn't give a lesser toss. True grit.
"gentrified Notting hill"... Strummer didn't gentrify it he lived there before the fronts of the houses were painted but the same people still live behind the curtains, I know because I still live here (it's North Kensington actually, only people who don't live here call it Notting hill, the rich live on the other side of the hill) and I know Joe lived there long before it was gentrified because I used to live opposite him, the first time I saw the Clash iit was on the guest list thanks to Joe who was also a regular customer at my fruit stall on the market, he was a lovely bloke and didn't even moan when my then Mrs got into a silly shouting fight (thank fuck they were pulled apart!) with crissie Hynde at his wedding reception even though we just walked in without invites, knowing him helped. The only drink available being Special brew on tap was the cause of the ruck I think. I still miss the bloke he was such a nice bloke and such a talent. R.I.P Joe.
It’s an interesting interview, but too much interruption. 👍 That scene from ‘Straight’ is very Spaghetti Western. Only saw it once. Looks good. Have to see it again.
That's what I liked about Joe Strummer if you are unemployed and on the Dole. Write a song about it that relates to just not yourself but those people around you too.
seriously. this journalist is sub par. greatest hits. well yeah. it's the clash. now on with the questions. i have a ton of things i would have loved to ask joe strummer. (A)
Can this guy actually wait for Joe to complete a sentence before butting in, learn your craft mate, I'm suprised Strummer didn't tell him to sling his hook...
Class act. Takes the facile and snide comments at face value and answers with great humility. Like others have said, where's the interviewer now?
The 'interviewer' became a hedge-fund manager, he died from alcoholism in 2002.
He didn't die in Micheal Barrymores pool did he?..............bummed to death!
@@Johnconno do you recall his name?
R.I.P. Joe. You changed my life and helped mold me into the man I am. Your music will continue to inspire, inform, and motivate people forever. There will never be another like Joe.
Yeah, Joe was one of a kind a really, really nice guy toO this interview annoys the shit out of me because the guy who’s interviewing Joe talks way too much. He interrupts Joe way too much and good interviewers let the person talk and they don’t interrupt the person being interviewed and this guy does it pisses me off.
He did same for me and I’m so grateful for this.
Strummer's way of talking is so cool.
so true.
A good weekend out.grreatmemory.
Why? That's not his real voice. His real voice is posh. Like the Queen. So his accent is phoney.
@@shuddupeyaface bullshit ya twat!
@@shuddupeyaface I disagree. Joe started out speaking 'nicely' because he's from a middle class family, but not upper class. He's just had to shake it off to live in the real world. Just like Ian Dury had to.. who was from a mixed middle and working class background.. Well you would wouldn't you? I know plenty of people who sounded like well brought up middle class kiddies but lost it along the way - it doesn't make them fake, it makes them more real, IMO because they subconsciously knew that in order survive out there and to be fully human, you would have to loosen up your speech a bit. Nothing wrong with it... no different from pciking up an American accent or whatever. Joe was a gem of a human being, full of contradictions, far from perfect, but ultimately very humble and kind... end of story
Joe, ever so intelligent, articulate and humble, showing why he was such a superstar. Missed.
right on the munny
The Interviewer doesn't let Joe finish. Questions on top and on the bottom of one another.
Based
What a sorry interviewer . And what’s with his scratching ?
he never pretended to be working class, he was always open about his roots.
i'm working class and i don't care what his background was i just care that his music means so much to me, at least he never reformed the clash for money like lydon did with the pistols
What became of the working class is terrible now a underclass under evil rich globalists elites…..
This interviewer has got to shut his mouth long enough for Joe to get a frickin sentence out
Joe died still young and suddenly. Great musician and very humble. Thanks.
Is not humble to put the foot on the couch
@@cuarto7705 how? Its comfortable. Setting ur leg down can get uncomfortable after a long time
Very mysterious death
The Blair witch project continues…..😟🌙👽🪐🍄💀🧙♀️☃️👀🌙
50 is not that young, you speak like he was 20 yr old.
Joe Strummer and his band borrowed our coach for that tour. We were The Cropdusters and it was an honour.
What a revolting interviewer what with his interrupting and scratching his leg, l would have walked off. Always love you Joe!
The interviewer needs his tongue circumcised. Joe is a cool guy he should have walked off
The guy doing the interview never lets Joe finish...what a knob. smh
+James Bell Jr He's either stupid or bad mannered. But probably both.
***** OK
OK....lol,but I am just saying let him finish what he was trying say so it can be an actual interview.
***** Oh wow,you could not have paid me to think Britain would not acknowledge the Clash at anytime.
***** Nah man I was not joking, being an American the Clash were big over here,now The Sandinista Album did get trashed over here(I liked it though) and I know for a fact I waited for a Clash reunion that never came(I even bought "Cut The Crap",so I settled for BAD and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros,but I am not joking when I read your statement about how the Clash was dissed in England..I still say wow.And with social media not really being a thing back then ,news was not so easily available back then.
Joe Strummer is such a great role model, I've learned so many important things from him since hearing the Clash in 79.
Look around today for any artist with a sliver of the talent this guy has. My hero. Saw him twice with the Mescaleros. We all miss you, Joe. Strummer/Jones, Lennon/McCartney…best ever.
How was seeing Joe in real life?
To the discerning eyes and ears isn’t that jimmy savile masquerading as Joe strummer, allegedly?
even the mole on the corner of his mouth, the voice and facial structures including ears are identical.
Joe Strummer! I have a love for him. And this interview makes me a bit mad, but Joe handles it too well. Actually a gentleman.
People here slagging the interviewer, but I think he's good - he clearly knows what he's talking about, and I think he's got a bit of backbone and asking some pretty interesting questions. It's better than having Jools Holland, Mojo or Uncut backslapping, asking the same old boring questions about London Calling and talking 'bout them good old days, it's interesting to see Joe thinking on his feet.
This is really interesting, fair play to the interviewer, and long live Joe Strummer! VIVA JOE!
It appears the interviewer thinks the interview is about him.
+Vinnie Kuzava it appears the interviewer needs a slap
And kept interrupting him over and over..
Back in the late 80s London media land it was how you looked and dressed that counted more than ability. Style over content. This interviewer is clearly inexperienced and nervous which means he blows it and no amount of retro leather armchairs or fancy lighting is going to save him. Joe puts up with it, as he looks like he is missing the attention at this stage of his career.
I fucking agree, who the fuck does he think he is & where is he now?
Joe should've stuck his boot in that tart's ass.
Good right leg. Taps his left.
A great friend And never met him.Speaking for many here.yes?❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Joe is definitely one of the coolest men who ever lived!!!
Dylan circa 66 is the only person I can think of that even comes close.
Good comparison. Joe was the post punk poet version of Dylan.
and Bob and Joe were good friends. I remember Bob talking about Joe and his music in his autobiography book Chronicles.
@@fivehead6675
Have you heard Dylan's cover of London Calling ?
I for one am glad they brought out this greatest hits, it was my first Clash CD as a kid & was a gentle introduction to the only band that mattered
Great interview with my favorite all-time singer and lyricist! Yeah, the interviewer seems to be baiting Joe a bit with some passive-aggressive games, but at least he's fairly well-informed about Joe and The Clash, so there's some depth to the interview that is often lacking in other interviews I've seen of Joe. Definitely not a typical softball celebrity interview.
I was at the Tabanacle in Ladbroke Grove. Traveled from New Zealand to the UK and got lucky to see Joe and his Rockabilly War band doing their Rock Against the Rich tour stop at this little church that had a rehab/homeless person thing happening downstairs. Great gig and thanks to Joe's girlfriend who went back out to get me after I'd asked if she could put me on the invite list cause it was a sold out gig. Incredible night and here in remote NZ we needed great humans like Joe to look up to.
Interviewer is a novice and out of his depth.....punching above his weight!
God Bless ya, Joe.
Yeah this interviewer sucks
He's a little tool the interviewer
The late, great and sadly lamented Mr Joe Strummer; taken from us way too early. RIP Joe, and thanks for the fabulous legacy of music you left behind for us to enjoy. Great interview; thanks for uploading - liked and subscribed.
I saw this live on tv and my younger brother bought that compilation and there was so many good bands to catch up on as a teen it put the clash in my head forever. Its a shame other compilations came out after and this one is now more difficult to find than others but oh well. Joe you lived well and gave it all, as Steve Jones said "he weren't a phony" and i agree. But were's the Joe Strummers of today? They must exist somewhere....
Thanks for posting. Always great seeing rarities from that period of Joe's career when he produced some of his greatest and most underrated work. Interviewer a bit of a knob but hey, you can't have everything!
A telephone number has never been read out on TV so brilliantly (21.40) - RIP Joe.
21:40.
RIP.JOE
The interviewer is very campy and giggly. The expressions on Strummer's face to some of his questions is hilarious. rofl
fantastic insight to where joe was at back then. he will always be a hero to me. love you, joe.
"My good right leg" as he pats his left leg
AH , ONE OF ME HEROES......SAW EM ALOT IN LATE 70S/ EARLY80S....GREAT LIVE [3 HOUR GIGS].....JOE A FLAWED GENIUS/ HYPOCRITE / WITH A HEART OF GOLD......SANDINISTA !
he was huge in my life, and still is but i miss him so much.
This interviewer seems right out of the young tory's ball and here he is interviewing Joe !!
The Story of The Clash is one of the best greatest hits albums ever due to The Clash picking the tracks & it turns out to be better than the singles album.
The man is so real!...wandering around London I think of him quite a lot quite often...
Strummer should have punched the show's host out cold. The number of times he was interrupted in mid-thought by the interviewer's inane and often insulting comments is ridiculous. Even given that this was from a late-night Channel Four programme from the late '80s, this is terrible.
That interviewer was painful
Night Network! I remember this show in the eighties and Joe's appearance on it. What an inspiration this man was and still is. :-)
LOVE AND MISS YOU JOE ! YOU ROCK !
I thought they interviewer was just fine. He did his research - or knew his stuff - and poses questions to Joe as per views that were to be seen in the media or the public at the time. Don't blame him for it, I think he did a fine job. And why shouldn't interviewers talk over the subjects just a little bit? You don't have to be submissive, and I really doubt Joe was that egotistical as to be bothered by it. Anyway, a "chat" can often be far more insightful than shooting questions at a person and then sitting back and expecting them to do all the work. And wasn't Joe very insightful? Excellent interview!
Sheesh, people! Anyway great interview, thanks for uploading.
definitely not wasted. i adore joe, but i adore him 100x more now. thanks for uploading.
Good interview. Cheers for the upload
I often wonder what he would think of our present neoliberal Dystopian world
This is the first time I’ve ever seen this CD set anywhere other than my desk or in my car.
Earthquake weather had some great tunes.Trash city is another go Joe tune.❤
The interviewer sucks, as others have mentioned. But it shows what a genuine good man Joe was, besides being the best front man in rock and roll. Great God, I miss him!
I think the interviewer did good, good interview. Cheers for the up load
Great interview (that was his style, used to watch him on Night Network - this actually works here) - shame you faded on the video, never seen the video for Trash City.
Really like how Joe comes across here. Less pretentious than the clichéd 'angry young bloke' in 77.
Some great solo stuff too.
Joe should have given that fool a Slap!
The world could sorely use a Rock Against the Rich gig these days. Problem is, who'd they get to promote it? And would anyone even turn up?
Even in these recessionary times, it seems there's very little opposition to capitalism. I guess we're all way more consumerist than we were back in '88 (and we were really bad back then)
Joe obviously isn’t enjoying this but answers all the inane questions in case there are any good ones. Class act.
Joe Strummer ruled this interview!! 😂😂❤❤🎉🎉
Wow, very cool : ) I have never seen this and it would be in the year 1994 that I would purchase The Story Of The Clash, finally learning more about this group and, at the same time, purchase The Punk Rock Movie, and make new discoveries : ) Thank you, MrFish7 : ) ♪♪♪♪
He’s got the 1950s rocker look here
Brilliant compilation.
What an interesting character, legend.
thanks for this
That interviewer is currently residing in the "Where are they now?" folder.
THANK YOU!
"You can't scratch on CD's." The sound on "Revolution Rock" on my CD-ROM copy of London Calling disagrees.
Now we know better@ the time bought hype.agree r.i.p. joestillstrums.
I miss you, Joe.
Where is that interviewer now eh?
As long as he's not in the same place as Joe he's laughing.
@@mikecondy6010 Looks like he died the year before Joe.
Didn't like the interviewer. Arrogant, condescending and never gave Joe an opportunity to speak at length. Shame on him. Joe however shone through as a great man. RIP Joe. Love you bro
The interviewer is an incompetent infant, Joe is pure class, cool and wisdom.
'Walker' was a brilliant soundtrack - Joe should've done more, but it sounds like at this point in time he was more seduced by thoughts of being an actor or being anywhere in proximity to the thrill of movie production, next up was his Jim Jarmusch period. Alex Cox circa '88 was being hyped as the next big thing but never really came up with a decent movie, however, the Walker soundtrack travelled with me as aural companion to many places round the globe and still stands up as a really eclectic collection of music. Joe was a one off and here as ever he is wonderfully articulate and insightful.
Dear John
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE... XX
Interviewer needs putting on his back .
@20.25 Joe sticks the knife in to the presenter lol.
'Rock against rich'? Comedy gold!
He was really great as the son in "Steptoe and Son". He's sadly missed.
I agree
This interviewer deliberately joins the ranks of Bill Grundy and Tom Snyder and many other forgotten errand boys who had a brush with greatness but were too self absorbed to really dig in and get to the good stuff. Worth it to see Joe though. RIP Joe Strummer.
Still miss Joe.
RIP Joe
leeth jarod RIP Joe Manchester's favorite son
There never was a "Volume 2".
He is fairly good in "mystery train"..(the Jm Jarmusch flick).
love Joe...x
Ffs, let Joe finish talking! Good on Joe for being good natured about it, but geez..
I used to fall asleep @ night with my fingers on play/pause
Imagine this guy interviewing John Lydon…….Hmmm
It's a bit cringe how the reporter is trying to catch him for being some kind of a sell out just because they released a compilation. They weren't just soapbox agitators, they made awesome music as well and deserved a paycheck for that.
On the rock against rich tour, Joe was such a gentleman that he loved the band , one style mdv and actually got in their van to talk and I understand he ordered them a hotel room . If he had lived One Style MDV May well have toured with Joe that’s how much he loved the young reggae bands music, he genuinely thought they were the dogs b*******
This is just like a different kind of Grundy episode - instead of the swearing, you get boots over the sofa, over the coffee table. It's stronger than sneering and swearing for that matter - you just smear the dirt of the street all over the place. Strummer knows he's talking to a well trained blabbermouth, but he couldn't give a lesser toss. True grit.
"gentrified Notting hill"... Strummer didn't gentrify it he lived there before the fronts of the houses were painted but the same people still live behind the curtains, I know because I still live here (it's North Kensington actually, only people who don't live here call it Notting hill, the rich live on the other side of the hill) and I know Joe lived there long before it was gentrified because I used to live opposite him, the first time I saw the Clash iit was on the guest list thanks to Joe who was also a regular customer at my fruit stall on the market, he was a lovely bloke and didn't even moan when my then Mrs got into a silly shouting fight (thank fuck they were pulled apart!) with crissie Hynde at his wedding reception even though we just walked in without invites, knowing him helped. The only drink available being Special brew on tap was the cause of the ruck I think.
I still miss the bloke he was such a nice bloke and such a talent.
R.I.P Joe.
A shouting fight with whom on whose wedding????
It’s an interesting interview, but too much interruption. 👍 That scene from ‘Straight’ is very Spaghetti Western. Only saw it once. Looks good. Have to see it again.
I remember discovering "Love Kills" from the soundtrack to the John Belushi biopic "Wired."
Coolest
That's what I liked about Joe Strummer if you are unemployed and on the Dole. Write a song about it that relates to just not yourself but those people around you too.
"Can't scratch a CD"?....greatest bit of bs marketing ever..
Interesting that he used the word hip hop. Didn't that it was used in 1988.
Clash from chaos.
seriously. this journalist is sub par. greatest hits. well yeah. it's the clash. now on with the questions. i have a ton of things i would have loved to ask joe strummer. (A)
I love Joe The Clash - interesting isnt it this interviewer had no idea what a Legend he was talking to
i totally agree! who is he and is does he still have a career? You can tell Joe is exerting much patience with this nob!
Is this nob's name is Mr. Kiss Curl? Joe is such a cool guy who stridently stays positive.
Night Network was on ITV not Channel 4.
Can this guy actually wait for Joe to complete a sentence before butting in, learn your craft mate, I'm suprised Strummer didn't tell him to sling his hook...
☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟💟
R.I.P. Joe.
GOD DAMN JOE LOOKS SO WOUNDED!