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Clash and Bo Diddley, Cleveland, 1979
Bob Gruen
January 31, 1979 : BO DIDDLEY opens for THE CLASH at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC, at the beginning of THE CLASH'S first US tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPc5_A9NZhk
The pics were taken 2 weeks later at Agora, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A., February 13, 1979. Photo Credit: Bob Gruen (and possibly others).
“In 1979, Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of the Clash asked that Diddley open for them on the band’s first American tour. “I can’t look at him without my mouth falling open,” Strummer, starstruck, told a journalist during the tour.”
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(L-R) Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon of The Clash with Bo Diddley in Cleveland, OH. February 1979. Photographer Bob Gruen
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Paul Simonon and Joe Strummer of The Clash backstage at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio on February 13, 1979, Janet Macoska.
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