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Flea (actor)
Bono (actor)
Julien Temple (director)
Filmmaker Julien Temple has spent much of his career documenting the music scene in England, including such seminal works as THE GREAT ROCK AND ROLL SWINDLE and THE FILTH AND THE FURY about the Sex Pistols. In 1976 he had originally set out to do a film about a different British punk band, the Clash; more than 30 years later, he directed THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN, a heartfelt film about of one of the leaders of the Clash, his good friend Joe Strummer. Born John Graham Mellor in Turkey in 1952, Strummer, the son of a career diplomat, traveled a great deal as a child, eventually settling down in England, where he became an artist and a musician and took part in the mid-1970s squatters' movement in London. He soon formed the influential punk band the Clash with Mick Jones and later headed the band Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros before his tragic death in 2002 from congenital heart disease. Temple speaks with many of the men and women who knew Strummer, gathering them around a campfire in Brooklyn Bridge Park to pay tribute to the Strummerville campfires where Joe would meet with friends and discuss life, love, and the state of the world. Among the celebrities and music fans sharing their thoughts on Strummer and his legacy are Flea, Bono, Martin Scorsese, Steve Buscemi, Matt Dillon, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Mele Mel, Jim Jarmusch, Courtney Love Cobain, Anthony Kiedis, Damien Hirst, Roland Gift, and Joe Ely. Temple doesn't place his main focus on Strummer the musician but rather on Strummer the human being, delving into his childhood and politics, displaying his art, and including excerpts from Strummer's radio show, making it seem as if Strummer is narrating his own story. The amazing soundtrack features songs by Strummer's early group, the 101ers, as well as the Clash and the Mescaleros as well as the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan, Big Audio Dynamite, Woody Guthrie, the MC5, the Slits, and others. THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN is a marvelous look at yet another major musical figure who died too soon.
Joe Strummer
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Aug 21, 1952 in Ankara, Turkey
Died: Dec 22, 2002 in Broomfield, Somerset, England
Genre: Rock
Styles: Rock & Roll, Urban Folk, Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock, Roots Rock, Garage Rock, Dub, Roots Reggae
As frontman and main songwriter of the Clash, Joe Strummer created some of the fieriest, most vital punk rock -- and, indeed, rock & roll -- of all time. Strummer expanded punk's musical palette with his fondness for reggae and early rock & roll, and his signature bellow lent an impassioned urgency to the political sloganeering that filled some of his best songs. Since the Clash disbanded in 1986, Strummer has sporadically pursued film acting and released the occasional solo album, though seemingly only when it suits him. Joe Strummer was born John Graham Mellor on August 21, 1952, when his father, a diplomat, was stationed in Ankara, Turkey. During his time at London boarding schools, the teenage Strummer immersed himself in rock and reggae, and began busking on the streets under his newly adopted stage name. In 1974, he formed the pub rock group the 101'ers, and though they rocked pretty hard, they couldn't quite match the raw fire Strummer discovered when he saw Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols. Strummer promptly quit pub rock to join the fledgling punk movement, and co-founded the Clash in 1976; the rest was history. Six albums, many more singles and EPs, and one frequently brilliant body of work later, the Clash broke up amidst rancorous infighting and uncertainty of direction. Strummer contributed two songs to the soundtrack of Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, a 1986 chronicle of the doomed Sex Pistols bassist; the two hit it off so well that Strummer acted in Cox's next two films, Walker (which Strummer also scored) and the bizarre Western Straight to Hell. His relaxed, natural screen presence earned him further work with directors Robert Frank (1987's Candy Mountain) and Jim Jarmusch (1989's acclaimed Mystery Train); Strummer also wrote five songs for the soundtrack of 1988's Permanent Record. In 1989, Strummer released his first solo album, Earthquake Weather, which blended straight-up rock & roll with touches of world music. However, following a temporary stint filling in for Shane MacGowan in the Pogues (both as rhythm guitarist and in-concert lead vocalist), Strummer largely fell silent after the very early '90s. The first peep of a return to the music scene occurred in 1996, when Strummer appeared on the Black Grape single "England's Irie." The following year, Strummer scored the John Cusack hitman comedy Grosse Pointe Blank, which relied heavily on new wave and British ska revival for its song selections. In 1999, Strummer released his second solo album, Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, which largely forsook straight-ahead rock & roll in favor of eclectic, rhythmic, world music flavored compositions, plus elaborate singer/songwriter-ish lyrics. Strummer further refined this new direction with the follow-up, 2001's Global A-Go-Go. In December 2002, he was in the midst of recording his fourth solo album when he died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Somerset.
---Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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