December 23, 2002 12:00 AM ET
Joe Strummer, former singer, guitarist and songwriter for legendary punk rockers the Clash, died Sunday at his home in Somerset, England of an apparent heart attack; he was fifty. An autopsy is pending.
The son of a British diplomat, Strummer was born John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, in 1952, and as a boy he lived in Mexico City, Cypress and Cairo, in addition to England. His rock & roll conversion came behind boarding school walls, courtesy of the Rolling Stones' version of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away." "I remember walking into some horrible room in some horrible school and hearing it blasting out of a huge, wooden radio," he told Rolling Stone last month. "The thing moved like a steam train, and that was the moment where I said, 'Yeah . . . wow!' "
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