Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer

A profile of Joe Strummer, front man for the Clash, one of rock music's most important bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, is set against the backdrop of the entire punk music scene, drawing on interviews with friends, family, and musical colleagues, as well as on the author's own three-decade friendship with Strummer, to capture the late musician's ongoing cultural significance.