Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
by Chris Salewicz
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Author: Chris SalewiczEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-13
ISBN: 0865479828
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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- ISBN13: 9780865479821
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Book Reviews of Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
Book Review: Easily the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read all the various Strummer biographies and found several of them quite good and entertaining. This one is by far the best.
The others do a fair job of telling what Joe did, and when, and with who etc etc. But I dont feel they really told who Joe was. This one does.
Redemption Song made me feel as if I really knew Strummer. This book, for me, changed Joe from being a kind of abstract musical legend and cultural prophet into a real human being with flaws and shortcomings and a real ego and temper. But it also reveals his innocence and kindness and good nature and humor.
The downside is, Redemption Song made me miss him even more, because after reading this book I had much more of a sense of what we lost when Joe died. I felt like I had lost a friend.
Summary of Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
?Engrossing.? ?BEN GILL, Mother Jones
?Passionate and detailed.?
?ROBERT CHRISTGAU, The New York Times Book Review
?[An] epic, meticulously researched . . . biography.? ?ZAC CRAIN, Esquire
?The most complete and honest account of Strummer?s professional and personal life.? ?RON WYNN, The Nashville City Paper
?There was a time when The Clash . . . was (quite properly) billed as ?The Only Band That Matters.? [This] biography about lead singer Joe Strummer explains why . . . Salewicz, a longtime Strummer associate and chronicler of the punk scene, quickly settles into his groove and stays there, his words as vivid as the lyrics to ?White Man in Hammersmith Palais? or ?London Calling.? Details abound, providing fresh glimpses into the Strummer persona, along with those that preceded it . . . [A] compelling tale of Strummer?s too-short life.?
?LARRY MCSHANE, Associated Press
?Will likely go down as the definitive bio of Strummer and the Clash.?
?JEFF TAMARKIN, Harp
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