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Paul Simonon

Paul Simonon (født 15. december1955 i Brixton, London, England) er bedst kendt som tidligere bassist i punkbandet The Clash. Han voksede op i Brixton, et fattigt kvarter, der dog var rigt på kultur, på grund af de mange udenlandske tilflyttere (specielt fra Jamaica). Dette er også grunden til Simonons store kærlighed til reggae musik. Før han begyndte at spille i The Clash havde han planer om at blive billedkunstner.

I 1976 spurgte The Clash's guitarist, Mick Jones, om Simonon ville spille andenguitar i bandet. Instrumentet viste sig at være for svært til Simonon, så Jones besluttede sig for at lære ham bas i stedet.

Simonon skrev i alt tre af Clash's tekster, "The Guns of Brixton", "The Crooked Beat og "Long Time Jerk". Simonon skrev "The Guns of Brixton" i jalousi over de mange penge som Strummer og Jones tjente på royalties, og denne sang viste sig senere at blive en af de mest kendte.

Efter The Clash gik fra hinanden, startede Simonon et band under navnet Havanna 3am. De nåede at indspille en enkelt plade i Japan, før de splittede op. I dag arbejder h

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Paul Simonon: 'The Clash never had a holiday – we were on a mission'

I grew up in Brixton and got into music at an early age. This was at the pre-beginning of the skinhead movement, which was pretty much an offshoot of the mod movement. So it was pro-black music. I went to Effra School off the Railton Road and lots of my friends were the sons and daughters of the Windrush generation. We’d listen to people like Prince Buster, but I didn’t know most of the names, I just heard the music. We’d hear rocksteady, and when my dad was living with us he listened to French singers like Jacques Brel. My part of Brixton was a journey through different sounds.

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Politically, I was guided by my father. He had lied about his age and was sent to Kenya to help suppress the Mau Mau uprising. He was quite haunted by it. I went to Catholic schools, then one day he said, “We’re not going to be Catholics any more,

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Biography

London artist Paul Simonon is a painter, musician, and designer. He was born in London in 1955.

Simonon took up a scholarship at the prestigious Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington (now part of Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design) .It was at this time that he bumped into Mick Jones who asked him if he wanted to form a band. As an aspiring painter who had never previously played bass, he first took a lead role in the band’s visual identity, rapidly learning to play the instrument as he went along. Vocalist Joe Strummer decided to join up with the two on sight and The Clash went on to become one of the most iconic and influential bands of the last 40 years. The Clash, styled by Simonon were recently cited as a key influence in Punk: Chaos to Couture at NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Simonon has always been passionate about art, and since the band split in the mid-1980s, painting has become as important as his music career. His passion for painting began as a boy, his father was an avid amateur painter and Paul spent a lot of time in his studio,