Happy 60th Birthday Paul Simonon (Born 12/15/55) (Watch “Guns of Brixton” Live ’83)

Happy 60th birthday to Paul Simonon born 12/15/55.  The founder and bass player for the Clash most recent work includes his involvement in the project The Good, the Bad & the Queen in 2007 with Damon Albarn, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and the Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach in 2010, which along with Albarn saw him reunite with Mick Jones.  The always cool Simonon played bass on almost all of the Clash’s songs and his reggae/ska-influenced lines set him apart from the bulk of other punk rock bassists of the era in their complexity and the role of the bass guitar within the band. His photo on the cover of London Calling is as iconic as the songs on the album itself. Watch Simonon sing lead vocals on “Guns of Brixton” live in 1983.

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