Joe Strummer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Strummer
Occupation	Punk Singer
Date Of Birth	Aug 21, 1952(1952-08-21)
Age	72
Date Of Death	December 22, 2002, Broomfield, United Kingdom
Country	Turkey
Birth City	Ankara
Horoscope	Leo

Joe Strummer Biography

Joe Strummer is one of the most popular and richest Punk Singer who was born on August 21, 1952 in Ankara, Turkey. English musician, best recognized as the lead singer and founder member of punk rock group The Clash. In The Clash, he recorded songs like “London Calling,” “Rock the Casbah,” and “Train in Vain.” The band also had a less well-known side project named The Mescaleros.

He sang a famous version to He did a famous cover of Bob Marley‘s song “Redemption Song.”‘s song “Redemption Song.”

Joe Strummer was born John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, on 21 August 1952. His Scottish mother, Anna Mackenzie (1915–1986), a crofter’s daughter born and raised in Bonar Bridge in the Scottish Highlands, was a nurse. His British father, Ronald Ralph Mellor MBE (1916–1984), was a clerical officer—later attaining the rank of second secretary—in the foreign service, born in Lucknow, India. Ronald Mellor, whose father was a railway official in India, had an Armenian maternal grandfather and a German Jewish paternal grandmother. At the age of 9, Strummer and his older brother David, 10, began boarding at the City of London Freemen’s School in Surrey. Strummer rarely saw his parents during the next seven years.

John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known from May 1975 as Joe Strummer, was a British musician, singer, composer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the Clash, a rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock.

There were several relationships with him which included a green-card marriage with Pamela Moolman, a South African citizen who wanted to gain British citizenship. The couple was married Lucinda Tait in 1995 until the time of his death.

Joe Strummer Net Worth

Joe Strummer is one of the richest Punk Singer from Turkey. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Strummer 's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was first a lead singer of The Welsh group The Vultures at age 21.

He was admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

He also used three Fender Esquire models, one from 1952, a white blonde with slab fretboard from the mid-1950s and another from early to mid-1960s with a white pick guard and rosewood fingerboard. The Esquire is a one-pickup version of the Telecaster. Prior to using any Telecaster oriented guitar, before buying his 1966 model, he used as main guitars a Gretsch White Falcon and a 1964 Hofner Verithin. For amplification Strummer was known to use amplifiers such as a Roland Jazz Chorus, a Selmer Bassman while he was in the 101ers, a Vox AC30 and various Marshall amplifiers, but his main amplifier was a Music Man HD 212,150. Strummer commented on his choice of amplifier with “I don’t have time to search for those old Fender tube amps. The Music Man is the closest thing to that sound I’ve found” and that the “plastic motif on the front is repulsive.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Joe Strummer height 5 ft 8 in Joe weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Joe Strummer Dating?

According to our records, Joe Strummer married to Lucinda Tait. As of December 1, 2023, Joe Strummer’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1975, after being offered £100 (equivalent to £1,000 in 2019), Strummer married Pamela Moolman, a South African citizen, so she could obtain British citizenship (foreign wives of male Britons could obtain British nationality via marriage, until the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force). He bought his signature Fender Telecaster, later painted black, with the money. In 1978, Strummer started a relationship with Gaby Salter shortly after her 17th birthday. The couple remained together for 14 years and had two daughters, Jazz and Lola, but did not marry as Strummer had been unable to locate and divorce Moolman. During his relationship with Salter, he had multiple affairs spanning the 1980s.

Facts & Trivia

Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Punk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Turkey. Joe Strummer celebrates birthday on August 21 of every year.

On 3 April 1976, the then-unknown Sex Pistols opened for the 101ers at a venue called the Nashville Rooms in London, and Strummer was impressed by them. Sometime after the show, Strummer was approached by Bernie Rhodes and Mick Jones. Jones was from the band London SS and wanted Strummer to join as lead singer. Strummer agreed to leave the 101ers and join Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, drummer Terry Chimes and guitarist Keith Levene. The band was named the Clash by Simonon and made their debut on 4 July 1976 in Sheffield, opening for the Sex Pistols at the Black Swan (also known as the Mucky Duck, now known as the Boardwalk). On 25 January 1977, the band signed with CBS Records as a three-piece after Levene was fired from the band and Chimes quit. Topper Headon later became the band’s full-time drummer.

Top Facts about Joe Strummer

1. Joe Strummer was the lead vocalist of The Clash.
2. He was born on August 21, 1952 in Ankara, Turkey.
3. Strummer’s birth name was John Graham Mellor.
4. The Clash released their debut album in 1977.
5. Strummer co-wrote many of The Clash’s hit songs.
6. He also acted in several films and TV shows.
7. Strummer died on December 22, 2002 at age 50.
8. His music influenced generations of punk rockers and beyond.
9. Strummer was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Clash in 2003.
10. A documentary film about his life titled “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” was released in 2007.

Was Joe Strummer a grave digger?

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.

What happened to Joe Strummer?

The Clash frontman died of heart failure in December 2002. The world has been without Joe Strummer for a decade. The co-founder and lead singer of The Clash died Dec. 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed heart defect at just 50 years old.

Did Joe Strummer have hepatitis?

In spring 1978, Joe Strummer developed hepatitis from a flying green one : what diseases might be passed now? This is all so long ago.

What was Joe Strummer heart condition?

The death certificate shows that he was suffering from an intra-mural coronary artery , where one of the main vessels supplying blood to the heart grows inside the heart muscle. Fewer than 100 fatal cases have been recorded in the world in 40 years.

Where is Joe Strummer grave?

Joe Strummer, founder of The Clash, left an indelible mark on the world of music. Strummer was cremated at the West London Crematorium, Kensal Green Cemetery.