Joe Strummer's relationship with Lucinda Tait ended when Joe Strummer died on December 22, 2002.
Some of it was going mouldy.
He also had lots of stuff in different plastic bags, including lyrics he’d written or typed out, chord changes, notes, setlists, sketches and cartoons.”Unable to cope with the raw emotion of sorting through so many tangible memories Tait called on friends to help, including the artist Damien Hirst.“After Joe died Damien Hirst kindly offered to come down and take a look and he said: ‘I’m going to take this stuff and put it in storage’, which he did. It had to be properly cleaned up, but when it was it was wonderful.”But the newly discovered songs display the humour, exuberance and simple joie de vivre that was the other side to Joe’s character, a side more frequently seen by his friends and family.“Joe wasn’t jaded or bitter. It was just too much to hear him.”Among those songs is an acoustic version of a song Strummer wrote in his squat in west London, in 1975, the year before punk exploded on the capital’s music scene and he joined The Clash, widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative bands of their generation..The song - usually performed as a raucous stomping number on stage - is delivered almost as a lullaby, sung by someone who could be sitting in a damp flat on a lumpy bed across from the listener.The recording had been made at 101 Elgin Avenue by Stummer’s friend Julian Yewdall, a photographer, who had deposited it in a bank for safe keeping and only retrieved it years later. "Mind you it didn’t sound like that to start with. Whether it was playing music with friends, organising all night campfires, or hijacking festivals, Joe was always focused on bringing people together. I saved some money, £1.99 I think, and bought it down Shaftesbury Avenue. “It’s so intimate it sounds like Joe’s in the room with you. Stummer’s wife, Lucinda Tait, said in a statement: “To see so many musicians and artists come forward to honor Joe is really touching. But it was a long haul.“Altogether it took about five years to clean up the tapes - removing all the hiss and noise to make them audible - for us to complete the process,” explains Tait.After all, collections of demo tapes, outtakes, discarded studio versions and ephemera from the likes of Bob Dylan; Little Feat and Crosby, Stills and Nash were for self-indulgent hippies and musos, not for the sturm und drang brigade of The Clash and the Sex Pistols.Well, time and nostalgic longing finds us all out in the end. Why Famous: N/A. What else could he have done[? Strummer's California state driving licence, from 1990 credit: Joe Strummer 001 It was this treasure strove that Tait found, almost literally at the bottom of their garden, after he died. “It’s so intimate it sounds like Joe’s in the room with you. Just hearing his voice was fantastic, always full of enthusiasm, brings it all back. Her grief was simply too raw and his singing only served as a cruel reminder of what she had lost.So it was only in recent years that Tait could bring herself to listen to the previously unreleased recordings by the former lead singer of The Clash which she had discovered in their Somerset barn, shortly after he died of an undiagnosed heart defect in December 2002, at the age of 50,Now 32 songs from that stash of long lost Strummer tapes have been released as part of a new collection of work by a man who inspired thousands during a career which spanned four decades and several musical reinventions.Some are pre-Clash, from when Strummer was a young pub rocker with the legendary London R&B band The 101ers; some from his post-Clash wilderness years, after he had - to his later regret - broken up the band and was dabbling in film scores.Yet more are from the period when, by now in his late 40s, he discovered a new lease of life with a group of young musicians and formed the Mescaleros.“It was very strange for me to listen to his voice again, anew, as we put the project together.
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