Alessandro Angeli The Clash 1977: Joe's life

The Clash 1977 is Alessandro Angeli’s personal journey into Joe Strummer’s life

I pick up this book, Alessandro Angeli The Clash 1977 and close my eyes.

I remember the first time I listened to The Clash, in the little park behind my home. I remember the first album I got, London Calling, in a record shop in Camden Town which no longer exists. I remember how they strike me, and how they still strike me, with their songs after so many years.

And the same feeling, the same goosebumps, that I feel when I have a piece of their history in my hands comes up. Like a jigsaw piece, which recomposes the perception I have of the group, the only band that matters And make me feel part of it.

Alessandro Angeli The Clash 1977 does a unique job: he imagines Joe Strummer, very young and drifter, before he becomes the Joe we know, and makes him talk – through letters – to his brother David, who committed suicide.

And that’s how we see a new shade of our favourite frontman, we discover his weaknesses and his hunger to play, create, change the world. In this small volume of Ortica Editrice, there is more biography than many official biographies, much more truth and attitude.

This book tells what all fans dream of: seeing the myth, their own hero, as an ordinary person, seeing him in his everyday shoes, what he thinks, what he does, how Joe managed to become what he really wanted.

And then the pages flow away, as it happens with the soundtrack, a timeless song, like Joe, like The Clash.

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