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Joe Strummer

The son of a British diplomat, John Mellor was born in Ankara, Turkey and spent parts of his childhood living in Mexico City and Cairo before being sent to boarding school in England with his brother at the age of nine. A rebellious, outgoing child who fell in love with the 1960s rock & roll of Little Richard and The Rolling Stones, he ended up in Newport, Wales where he hung out with art school friends, worked as a grave digger and played with his first band The Vultures under the name Woody. Returning to London in 1974, he named his next group The 101ers after the door number o...