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Paul Simonon

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Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the punk rock band The Clash. [1]

61 relations: AllMusic, Alternative rock, Big Audio Dynamite, Bob Dylan, Brixton, Byam Shaw School of Art, Cairn, Capitol Records, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Columbia Records, Combat Rock, Counterpoint, Croydon, Cut the Crap, Damon Albarn, David Lancaster (writer), Don Letts, Down in the Groove, Eurockéennes, Give 'Em Enough Rope, Gorillaz, Greenland, Greenpeace, Havana 3am, Havana 3am (Havana 3am album), Herculean (song), Joe Strummer, Ladbroke Grove, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, London Calling, London Town (2016 film), Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist), Norman Watt-Roy, Parlophone, Pennie Smith, Plastic Beach, Punk rock, Reggae, Rock and roll, Rock the Casbah, Sandinista!, Sex Pistols, Siena, Simon Tong, Ska, Sony Music, Steve Jones (musician), Terry Chimes, The Clash, The Clash (album), ..., The Clash: Westway to the World, The Fall (Gorillaz album), The Good, the Bad & the Queen, The Guns of Brixton, The Quarto Group, Thornton Heath, Tighten Up Vol. 88, Tim Marlow, Tony Allen (musician), Topper Headon, Uncut (magazine). Expand index (11 more) »

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Big Audio Dynamite

Big Audio Dynamite (later known as Big Audio Dynamite II and Big Audio, and often abbreviated BAD) are a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of The Clash, Mick Jones.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Brixton

Brixton is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Byam Shaw School of Art

The Byam Shaw School of Art, often known simply as Byam Shaw, was an independent art school in London, England, which specialised in fine art and offered foundation and degree level courses.

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Cairn

A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly referred to as Coachella or the Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Combat Rock

Combat Rock is the fifth studio album by the English rock band The Clash.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Cut the Crap

Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by English rock band the Clash, released in 4 November 1985 on Epic Records.

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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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David Lancaster (writer)

David Lancaster (born 1965) is a writer and academic.

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Don Letts

Donovan "Don" Letts (born) is a British film director, DJ and musician.

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Down in the Groove

Down in the Groove is the 25th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 30, 1988 by Columbia Records.

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Eurockéennes

The Eurockéennes de Belfort is one of France's largest rock music festivals.

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Give 'Em Enough Rope

Give 'Em Enough Rope is the second studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash.

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Gorillaz

Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Havana 3am

Havana 3am was the band of bassist Paul Simonon formed shortly after his previous band, The Clash, officially broke up in 1986.

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Havana 3am (Havana 3am album)

Havana 3am is the eponymous debut album by Paul Simonon's band Havana 3am.

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Herculean (song)

"Herculean" is the first single (and first-ever release) by The Good, the Bad and the Queen, an alternative rock band fronted by Damon Albarn.

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Joe Strummer

John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was an English musician, singer, actor and songwriter who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the Clash, a punk rock band formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk.

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Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove is a road in west London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, running north–south between Harrow Road and Holland Park Avenue.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is a 1982 film about three teenage girls, played by Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Marin Kanter, who start a punk band.

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London Calling

London Calling is the third studio album by English punk rock band The Clash.

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London Town (2016 film)

London Town is a 2016 American-British drama film directed by Derrick Borte and written by Matt Brown.

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Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)

Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, cofounder and songwriter for The Clash until his dismissal in 1983.

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Norman Watt-Roy

Norman Joseph Watt-Roy (born 15 February 1951) is an English musician, arranger and composer.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Pennie Smith

Pennie Smith (born in London) is an English photographer, known for having photographed several rock musicians.

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Plastic Beach

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock the Casbah

"Rock the Casbah" is a song by the English punk rock band The Clash, released in 1982.

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Sandinista!

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English rock band the Clash.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Siena

Siena (in English sometimes spelled Sienna; Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy.

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Simon Tong

Simon Tong (born 9 July 1972) is an English guitarist and keyboardist who was a member of The Verve between 1996 and 1999 and is currently a member of Erland and the Carnival and Transmission.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Steve Jones (musician)

Stephen Philip Jones (born 3 September 1955) is an English rock guitarist, singer and actor, best known as a guitarist with the Sex Pistols.

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Terry Chimes

Terence "Terry" Chimes (born 5 July 1956, Stepney, London, England) is an English musician, best known as the original drummer of punk rock group The Clash.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Clash (album)

The Clash is the debut studio album by English punk rock band the Clash.

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The Clash: Westway to the World

The Clash: Westway to the World is a 2000 documentary film about the British punk rock band The Clash.

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The Fall (Gorillaz album)

The Fall is the fourth studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz.

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The Good, the Bad & the Queen

The Good, the Bad & the Queen is the album by an unnamed British alternative rock supergroup also commonly referred to as The Good, The Bad & The Queen, and made up of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and produced by Danger Mouse.

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The Guns of Brixton

"The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash.

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The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.

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Thornton Heath

Thornton Heath is a district of South London, part of the London Borough of Croydon, south of Charing Cross.

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Tighten Up Vol. 88

Tighten Up, Vol.

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Tim Marlow

Tim Marlow (born 1963) is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian.

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Tony Allen (musician)

Tony Oladipo Allen (born 1940 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter who currently lives and works in Paris.

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Topper Headon

Nicholas Bowen "Topper" Headon (born 30 May 1955), known as "Topper" because of his resemblance to Mickey the Monkey from the Topper comic, is an English drummer, best known as the drummer of the punk rock band The Clash.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simonon

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