Fact #91665
When:
Short story:
Joe Strummer of The Clash is arrested, when he hits a violent audience member with his Fender Telecaster during a gig in The Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
Full article:
Joe Strummer : I nearly murdered somebody and it made me realise that there must be another way of facing violence … you can’t face violence with violence, it just doesn’t work. I was emotionally shattered … completely disheartened to see what’s happened to the seeds of what we’ve planted. If those pricks and kids like them are the fruits of our labours, then they’re much worse than those people they were meant to replace.
If I’m going to be pushed into a situation whereby there’s even the remotest possibility that I might kill or maim a member of the audience, what on earth is the point of what we’re doing? Anyway, I don’t believe we’ve done any good at all. What we’ve done amounts to nothing.
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If I’m going to be pushed into a situation whereby there’s even the remotest possibility that I might kill or maim a member of the audience, what on earth is the point of what we’re doing? Anyway, I don’t believe we’ve done any good at all. What we’ve done amounts to nothing.
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