Class act. Takes the facile and snide comments at face value and answers with great humility. Like others have said, where's the interviewer now?

Joe Strummer and his band borrowed our coach for that tour. We were The Cropdusters and it was an honour.

The Interviewer doesn't let Joe finish. Questions on top and on the bottom of one another.

Strummer's way of talking is so cool.

Joe, ever so intelligent, articulate and humble, showing why he was such a superstar. Missed.

he never pretended to be working class, he was always open about his roots. i'm working class and i don't care what his background was i just care that his music means so much to me, at least he never reformed the clash for money like lydon did with the pistols

Joe died still young and suddenly. Great musician and very humble. Thanks.

This interviewer has got to shut his mouth long enough for Joe to get a frickin sentence out

R.I.P. Joe. You changed my life and helped mold me into the man I am. Your music will continue to inspire, inform, and motivate people forever. There will never be another like Joe.

A great friend And never met him.Speaking for many here.yes?❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Joe Strummer is such a great role model, I've learned so many important things from him since hearing the Clash in 79.

Look around today for any artist with a sliver of the talent this guy has. My hero. Saw him twice with the Mescaleros. We all miss you, Joe. Strummer/Jones, Lennon/McCartney…best ever.

I was at the Tabanacle in Ladbroke Grove. Traveled from New Zealand to the UK and got lucky to see Joe and his Rockabilly War band doing their Rock Against the Rich tour stop at this little church that had a rehab/homeless person thing happening downstairs. Great gig and thanks to Joe's girlfriend who went back out to get me after I'd asked if she could put me on the invite list cause it was a sold out gig. Incredible night and here in remote NZ we needed great humans like Joe to look up to.

I for one am glad they brought out this greatest hits, it was my first Clash CD as a kid & was a gentle introduction to the only band that mattered

"My good right leg" as he pats his left leg

Good right leg. Taps his left.

It appears the interviewer thinks the interview is about him.

What a revolting interviewer what with his interrupting and scratching his leg, l would have walked off. Always love you Joe!

Joe Strummer! I have a love for him. And this interview makes me a bit mad, but Joe handles it too well. Actually a gentleman.

he was huge in my life, and still is but i miss him so much.

A telephone number has never been read out on TV so brilliantly (21.40) - RIP Joe.

LOVE AND MISS YOU JOE ! YOU ROCK !

Joe is definitely one of the coolest men who ever lived!!! Dylan circa 66 is the only person I can think of that even comes close.

People here slagging the interviewer, but I think he's good - he clearly knows what he's talking about, and I think he's got a bit of backbone and asking some pretty interesting questions. It's better than having Jools Holland, Mojo or Uncut backslapping, asking the same old boring questions about London Calling and talking 'bout them good old days, it's interesting to see Joe thinking on his feet. This is really interesting, fair play to the interviewer, and long live Joe Strummer! VIVA JOE!

This interviewer seems right out of the young tory's ball and here he is interviewing Joe !!

fantastic insight to where joe was at back then. he will always be a hero to me. love you, joe.

The man is so real!...wandering around London I think of him quite a lot quite often...

Night Network! I remember this show in the eighties and Joe's appearance on it. What an inspiration this man was and still is. :-)

The Story of The Clash is one of the best greatest hits albums ever due to The Clash picking the tracks & it turns out to be better than the singles album.

Thank u for sharing this gem morrissey and strummer are the 2 people whom I admired growing up ...I had a strange youth ...I needed them n they never failed joe is greatly missed

The guy doing the interview never lets Joe finish...what a knob. smh

Great interview with my favorite all-time singer and lyricist! Yeah, the interviewer seems to be baiting Joe a bit with some passive-aggressive games, but at least he's fairly well-informed about Joe and The Clash, so there's some depth to the interview that is often lacking in other interviews I've seen of Joe. Definitely not a typical softball celebrity interview.

That interviewer was painful

I often wonder what he would think of our present neoliberal Dystopian world

AH , ONE OF ME HEROES......SAW EM ALOT IN LATE 70S/ EARLY80S....GREAT LIVE [3 HOUR GIGS].....JOE A FLAWED GENIUS/ HYPOCRITE / WITH A HEART OF GOLD......SANDINISTA !

Thanks for posting. Always great seeing rarities from that period of Joe's career when he produced some of his greatest and most underrated work. Interviewer a bit of a knob but hey, you can't have everything!

definitely not wasted. i adore joe, but i adore him 100x more now. thanks for uploading.

Earthquake weather had some great tunes.Trash city is another go Joe tune.❤

The interviewer is very campy and giggly. The expressions on Strummer's face to some of his questions is hilarious. rofl

thanks for this

THANK YOU!

Interviewer is a novice and out of his depth.....punching above his weight! God Bless ya, Joe.

Brilliant compilation.

Joe Strummer ruled this interview!! 😂😂❤❤🎉🎉

I miss you, Joe.

Joe obviously isn’t enjoying this but answers all the inane questions in case there are any good ones. Class act.

Joe should have given that fool a Slap!

Wow, very cool : ) I have never seen this and it would be in the year 1994 that I would purchase The Story Of The Clash, finally learning more about this group and, at the same time, purchase The Punk Rock Movie, and make new discoveries : ) Thank you, MrFish7 : ) ♪♪♪♪

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE... XX

love Joe...x

Really like how Joe comes across here. Less pretentious than the clichéd 'angry young bloke' in 77. Some great solo stuff too.

Dear John

'Rock against rich'? Comedy gold!

Strummer should have punched the show's host out cold. The number of times he was interrupted in mid-thought by the interviewer's inane and often insulting comments is ridiculous. Even given that this was from a late-night Channel Four programme from the late '80s, this is terrible.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen this CD set anywhere other than my desk or in my car.

The interviewer sucks, as others have mentioned. But it shows what a genuine good man Joe was, besides being the best front man in rock and roll. Great God, I miss him!

I thought they interviewer was just fine. He did his research - or knew his stuff - and poses questions to Joe as per views that were to be seen in the media or the public at the time. Don't blame him for it, I think he did a fine job. And why shouldn't interviewers talk over the subjects just a little bit? You don't have to be submissive, and I really doubt Joe was that egotistical as to be bothered by it. Anyway, a "chat" can often be far more insightful than shooting questions at a person and then sitting back and expecting them to do all the work. And wasn't Joe very insightful? Excellent interview! Sheesh, people! Anyway great interview, thanks for uploading.

I agree

He was really great as the son in "Steptoe and Son". He's sadly missed.

@20.25 Joe sticks the knife in to the presenter lol.

Great interview (that was his style, used to watch him on Night Network - this actually works here) - shame you faded on the video, never seen the video for Trash City.

I remember discovering "Love Kills" from the soundtrack to the John Belushi biopic "Wired."

The world could sorely use a Rock Against the Rich gig these days. Problem is, who'd they get to promote it? And would anyone even turn up? Even in these recessionary times, it seems there's very little opposition to capitalism. I guess we're all way more consumerist than we were back in '88 (and we were really bad back then)

"You can't scratch on CD's." The sound on "Revolution Rock" on my CD-ROM copy of London Calling disagrees.

A Spinal Tap compilation would be Volume 11 cos thats how high it goes!

RIP Joe

I used to fall asleep @ night with my fingers on play/pause

He is fairly good in "mystery train"..(the Jm Jarmusch flick).

Clash from chaos.

R.I.P. Joe.

It’s an interesting interview, but too much interruption. 👍 That scene from ‘Straight’ is very Spaghetti Western. Only saw it once. Looks good. Have to see it again.

Coolest

I love Joe The Clash - interesting isnt it this interviewer had no idea what a Legend he was talking to

Imagine this guy interviewing John Lydon…….Hmmm

Where is that interviewer now eh?

GOD DAMN JOE LOOKS SO WOUNDED!

☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟💟

yeah. it's his left leg - always. our right, his left. In the SLF song Strumerville this even say 'with his right leg pumping'. You'd think going to trouble of writing a song about him you'd get that right

seriously. this journalist is sub par. greatest hits. well yeah. it's the clash. now on with the questions. i have a ton of things i would have loved to ask joe strummer. (A)

Great right leg! Taps left leg. I rest my case.🤣

RIP

Interviewer needs putting on his back .

"Can't scratch a CD"?....greatest bit of bs marketing ever..

Looks like he had perhaps snorted a line before this interview, god bless him.

"gentrified Notting hill"... Strummer didn't gentrify it he lived there before the fronts of the houses were painted but the same people still live behind the curtains, I know because I still live here (it's North Kensington actually, only people who don't live here call it Notting hill, the rich live on the other side of the hill) and I know Joe lived there long before it was gentrified because I used to live opposite him, the first time I saw the Clash iit was on the guest list thanks to Joe who was also a regular customer at my fruit stall on the market, he was a lovely bloke and didn't even moan when my then Mrs got into a silly shouting fight (thank fuck they were pulled apart!) with crissie Hynde at his wedding reception even though we just walked in without invites, knowing him helped. The only drink available being Special brew on tap was the cause of the ruck I think. I still miss the bloke he was such a nice bloke and such a talent. R.I.P Joe.

That's what I liked about Joe Strummer if you are unemployed and on the Dole. Write a song about it that relates to just not yourself but those people around you too.

I bought the soundtrack to Walker......it was ok........never saw the film, though.....

At the end of the day does anyone know who this interviewer is or where he is now or what has he done, on the other hand who doesn't know that about JS

The way the interviewer was acting wasn't really professional really, but it did seem they were having just a normal conversation which was more chill than anything

Ffs, let Joe finish talking! Good on Joe for being good natured about it, but geez..

"Spout out your [rock star] inane ideas." -J. Strummer

It's a bit cringe how the reporter is trying to catch him for being some kind of a sell out just because they released a compilation. They weren't just soapbox agitators, they made awesome music as well and deserved a paycheck for that.

Night Network was on ITV not Channel 4.

Interesting that he used the word hip hop. Didn't that it was used in 1988.

Can this guy actually wait for Joe to complete a sentence before butting in, learn your craft mate, I'm suprised Strummer didn't tell him to sling his hook...

8:51 he predicted Last Blood!

Didn't like the interviewer. Arrogant, condescending and never gave Joe an opportunity to speak at length. Shame on him. Joe however shone through as a great man. RIP Joe. Love you bro

I can actually enjoy the interview if I pretend the guy is a young Jiminy Glick.

Saw Joe Strummer and Big Audio Dynamite in 1988 and 1989 at the Royal Court in Liverpool. Think it was 3 days between them in 1988. In the Rock Against The Rich Tour some bloke was ranting on at beginning and when Joe was coming back for encore whoever it was that introduced him turned back when met by the loudest fuck off ever heard, because I think everyone thought mister Ranty was coming back,

The interviewer is Joes brother in law