Before John Graham Mellor slowly but surely turned to Punk Rock in 1976 to write music history with The Clash under the alias Joe Strummer, he went by the stage name “Woody”. After Woody Guthrie. The reference to the hobo and proto-protest singer Woody Guthrie fit like a glove – because Strummer was also a class warrior in his Clash days, standing up for the underprivileged and outlaws; not least because he himself knew the hard things in life – as a boarding school kid, squatter, art school drop-out, street tramp – from an early age. Poster from Disorder Rebelstore.
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