Tim Burgess, Alan McGee & Billy Bragg pay tribute to Clash legend

Joe died from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. The punk legend was just 50 when died suddenly in his Somerset home in 2002.

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, Billy Bragg & Creation Records founder Alan McGee were just some the names who paid tribute to Strummer yesterday.

Tim Burgess took twitter to show his respects linking a track from Strummers first band The 101ers with a tweet which read:

'9 years since the untimely death of Joe Strummer… a true maverick & brilliant frontman.'

Billy Bragg took to Facebook to say:

'Today we remember our brother Joe Strummer, who died on this day in 2002. The music he made still resonates. As London burned this summer, his words came to mind "White youth, black youth, better find another solution. Why not phone up Robin Hood and ask him for some wealth distribution?'
Alan McGee said:

'Long may you rock and roll, Joe Strummer. Forever missed and loved by Clash fans worldwide and he always will be. Long may you run. Apart from Elvis or Lennon, nobody has ever been that cool again in rock 'n' roll.'

Strummer's old Clash bandmate Mick Jones recently said of Joe:

'Joe is with me all the time you know… I can feel him in so many ways, its something that's with me a lot of the time.'