[thechat] Clash star Strummer dies

[javier velasco]

Bad news for the rock fans:


Monday, 23 December, 2002, 14:42 GMT
Clash star Strummer dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2600669.stm

Joe Strummer, the leader of legendary Seventies punk band The Clash, has
died aged 50.

A spokesman for Strummer, real name John Graham Mellor, said the singer
died at home in Broomfield, Somerset, on Sunday.

A post mortem examination is to be performed on Monday to confirm the
cause of death, which a friend of the singer said was a heart attack...