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There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

Joe Strummer

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Joe Strummer
Age: 50 †
Born: 1952
Born: August 21
Died: 2002
Died: December 22
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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John Graham Mellor
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World
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The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
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