Joe Strummer's 60th Birthday This Tuesday!

Morricone Youth Celebrates Joe Strummer's Soundtracks This Sunday 2pm ET on EastVillageRadio.com

Be sure to check out Morricone Youth this Sunday at 2pm ET as host Devon E. Levins has something quite special planned for this week's show. 

Many fail to realize that after the official breakup of the "The Only Band That Matters" a.k.a. The Clash in 1986, co-founder, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer (born John Graham Mellor on August 21, 1952 in Ankara, Turkey), turned to film and film music.  Starting in 1986, Strummer wrote music for and/or acted in three Alex Cox films; Sid and Nancy, Walker and Straight to Hell (the latter named after The Clash song).  In fact, he scored the entire soundtrack to Walker and later more notably scored the Keanu Reeves vehicle Permanent Record, the Jim Jarmusch-produced When Pigs Fly and the George Armitage-directed Grosse Pointe Blank.  Although he made brief appearances in numerous films such as Aki Kaurismaki's I Hired a Contract Killer and F.J. Ossang's Docteur Chance and the television series South Park, Strummer played his most memorable role Jarmusch's classic, Mystery Train, as a drifter named Johnny (also referred to as "Elvis") in the "Lost in Space" sequence of the film opposite Steve Buscemi.  In 1999, Strummer went on to form The Mescaleros with Pablo Cook and Richard Norris, who originally came together to write the soundtracks for two short films, Tunnel of Love and Question of Honour.  Before Strummer's death on December 22, 2002, The Mescaleros went on to release three albums and contribute notable songs for films Black Hawk Down and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and provided the theme song to HBO's John From Cincinnati.


The show will be archived HERE!