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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones 08:54 - Jun 26 with 3860 viewssmegma

65 years young, he’s one of our own.


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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 11:48 - Jun 26 with 3793 viewsPeterHucker

You're my guitar hero!!
Now at weekends when he's going down Streatham on the bus he can travel for free.
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 12:15 - Jun 26 with 3778 viewsDannyPaddox

A mate wrote a book on punk recently. I went through some of the early drafts for typos and general comprehension. Set out chronologically it’s a fantastic read. What I found interesting were the things that almost happened but didn’t, and things that happened, became iconic, but were at the time random or down to serendipity.

1976. The Pistols have been rehearsing all summer and starting to get it together, McLaren is interested, (or maybe he and Westwood just want edgy boys with guitars to model their clothes) Then Paul Cook starts to get cold feet - he doesn’t think his mate Steve (the other) Jones is much of a guitarist and he’s wondering if he’s better off spending more time working in the brewery with his Dad and earning some wedge. Matlock suggests the band draft in an additional (lead) guitarist and the number one candidate is a bloke everyone gets on with who has jammed with them once or twice - Mick Jones. To show Cook and the rest of the band he’s serious - McLaren joins Matlock one Saturday afternoon on a search for Jonesy in order to recruit him for the band. They walk the length of the Portobello Road checking out the usual haunts such as the Warwick Castle but they don’t find him. And of course it never happens. And the Pistols stayed the Pistols. And Mick Jones would soon form the Clash.

I checked the date of McLaren and Matlock’s Portobello Odyssey (late September back in 76) and then realise why they didn’t find Mick ... he was down the Rangers. We’d just gone top of the league for the first time in the club’s history and were home to Newcastle. Jonesy was the 1 in the 22,981 watching Mick Leach cement the Rs position at the top of the table with a 1-0 win (playing conditions: Gusty winds, rain-soaked pitch and blinding sunshine!) QPR changed the face of Punk as we know it. I say this to Frank, the author of the book, and suggest he rectify the glaring omission. “I knew you’d try and get QPR in there somewhere” was his reply.

Happy Birthday Mick Jones. I wonder whether you really were at Loftus Road that day.




ps: perfect lockdown holiday reading for the Costa Del Social Distanza:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Worlds-End-Book-Sex-Pistols-McLaren-Westwood-430-King
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 12:56 - Jun 26 with 3750 viewsWrightUp5hit___

Happy Birthday to my HCAB contempory.
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 13:12 - Jun 26 with 3736 viewsCroydonCaptJack

I posted a few Clash Reggae tracks on the best thread on here but here is another classic.

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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 19:18 - Jun 26 with 3620 viewsDWQPR

Often see Mick leaving the SAR after a game. Doesn’t look like the ageing punk anymore. Hair receeding. Spoke to him a few years ago for a couple of minutes and even in my early 50’s was in awe of the guy. Very polite and very unassuming. An all round good egg and of course a passionate R. A rock and roll legend and part of the best song writing duo in ever in my opinion. Managed to see the Clash just the once, 18th October 1981 at the Lyceum. Right at the front. Earlier that Sunday for some reason Rangers played Orient away in a lunchtime kick off and drew 1-1. Went to that game.

The split of the Clash was acrimonious at the time but just before Joe Strummer’s untimely death Mick and Joe played together again at Acton Town Hall in a benefit gig for striking firefighters. I wonder whether that would have been the second coming of the Clash. Certainly there was unfinished business there. Happy 65th birthday Mick. The original Clash City Rocker.

Poll: Where will Clive put QPR in his new season preview

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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 19:40 - Jun 26 with 3607 viewssmegma

Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 19:18 - Jun 26 by DWQPR

Often see Mick leaving the SAR after a game. Doesn’t look like the ageing punk anymore. Hair receeding. Spoke to him a few years ago for a couple of minutes and even in my early 50’s was in awe of the guy. Very polite and very unassuming. An all round good egg and of course a passionate R. A rock and roll legend and part of the best song writing duo in ever in my opinion. Managed to see the Clash just the once, 18th October 1981 at the Lyceum. Right at the front. Earlier that Sunday for some reason Rangers played Orient away in a lunchtime kick off and drew 1-1. Went to that game.

The split of the Clash was acrimonious at the time but just before Joe Strummer’s untimely death Mick and Joe played together again at Acton Town Hall in a benefit gig for striking firefighters. I wonder whether that would have been the second coming of the Clash. Certainly there was unfinished business there. Happy 65th birthday Mick. The original Clash City Rocker.


Mick is on record as stating following that benefit gig they had planned to work together again. I speak to him most home games , usually about football and music and the fact we dislike cricket.
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 20:39 - Jun 26 with 3568 viewsizlingtonhoop

Freedom pass is 60+

Although they're bound to change it in the next 2 years 11 months
😔
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 21:45 - Jun 26 with 3543 viewssmegma

Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 20:39 - Jun 26 by izlingtonhoop

Freedom pass is 60+

Although they're bound to change it in the next 2 years 11 months
😔


You have to pay for the 60+. The 65 freedom pass is free.
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 21:46 - Jun 26 with 3540 viewsMonahoop

Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 12:15 - Jun 26 by DannyPaddox

A mate wrote a book on punk recently. I went through some of the early drafts for typos and general comprehension. Set out chronologically it’s a fantastic read. What I found interesting were the things that almost happened but didn’t, and things that happened, became iconic, but were at the time random or down to serendipity.

1976. The Pistols have been rehearsing all summer and starting to get it together, McLaren is interested, (or maybe he and Westwood just want edgy boys with guitars to model their clothes) Then Paul Cook starts to get cold feet - he doesn’t think his mate Steve (the other) Jones is much of a guitarist and he’s wondering if he’s better off spending more time working in the brewery with his Dad and earning some wedge. Matlock suggests the band draft in an additional (lead) guitarist and the number one candidate is a bloke everyone gets on with who has jammed with them once or twice - Mick Jones. To show Cook and the rest of the band he’s serious - McLaren joins Matlock one Saturday afternoon on a search for Jonesy in order to recruit him for the band. They walk the length of the Portobello Road checking out the usual haunts such as the Warwick Castle but they don’t find him. And of course it never happens. And the Pistols stayed the Pistols. And Mick Jones would soon form the Clash.

I checked the date of McLaren and Matlock’s Portobello Odyssey (late September back in 76) and then realise why they didn’t find Mick ... he was down the Rangers. We’d just gone top of the league for the first time in the club’s history and were home to Newcastle. Jonesy was the 1 in the 22,981 watching Mick Leach cement the Rs position at the top of the table with a 1-0 win (playing conditions: Gusty winds, rain-soaked pitch and blinding sunshine!) QPR changed the face of Punk as we know it. I say this to Frank, the author of the book, and suggest he rectify the glaring omission. “I knew you’d try and get QPR in there somewhere” was his reply.

Happy Birthday Mick Jones. I wonder whether you really were at Loftus Road that day.




ps: perfect lockdown holiday reading for the Costa Del Social Distanza:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Worlds-End-Book-Sex-Pistols-McLaren-Westwood-430-King


Good story. Happy birthday Mick. A decent type.

There aint half been some clever bastards.

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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 21:52 - Jun 26 with 3524 viewsizlingtonhoop

Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 21:45 - Jun 26 by smegma

You have to pay for the 60+. The 65 freedom pass is free.


And that alters my point how?
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Happy Freedom Pass Day Mick Jones on 18:52 - Jun 27 with 3364 viewslightwaterhoop

The clash were my favourite band when I was growing up.The gig at the music machine in 1978 was probably the best ive been to.


Happy Birthday Mick
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