Paul Simonon

Bassist

Paul Simonon was born in London on December 15th, 1955 and is the Bassist. At the age of 68, Paul Simonon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
December 15, 1955
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
London
Age
68 years old
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Networth
$15 Million
Profession
Bassist, Guitarist, Painter, Singer, Singer-songwriter
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Paul Simonon Career

He met Mick Jones in 1976, and six months later the Clash was formed when Joe Strummer joined, with Jones on lead guitar. Simonon learned his bass parts by rote from Jones in the early days of The Clash and still did not know how to play the bass when the group first recorded. He is credited with coming up with the name of the band and was mainly responsible for the visual aspects such as clothing and stage backdrops. Simonon was shown on the front cover of the band's double album London Calling: Pennie Smith's image of him smashing his Fender Precision Bass guitar during a 1979 concert in New York City; the image has become one of the iconic pictures of the punk era.

Simonon played bass on almost all of the Clash's songs. Recordings that he did not play on include: "The Magnificent Seven" and "Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)" on Sandinista! (played by Norman Watt-Roy), "Rock the Casbah" on Combat Rock (played by Topper Headon), and Cut the Crap (played by Norman Watt-Roy). Sandinista! featured bass played by Jones or Strummer, some but possibly not all of which Simonon later re-recorded once he rejoined the sessions after filming Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. Also, when performing "The Guns of Brixton" live he switched instruments with Joe Strummer, because it was easier for him to sing while playing guitar, instead of bass as he sings lead vocals on this track.

Simonon's contrapuntal 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.

After the Clash dissolved in 1986, Simonon started a band called Havana 3am. He recorded one album with them. He also participated in a Bob Dylan session along with the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones that became part of the Dylan album Down in the Groove. Also, Simonon works as an artist – his first passion before joining the Clash. He has had several gallery shows, and designed the cover for Big Audio Dynamite's album, Tighten Up, Vol. 88, as well as the cover for "Herculean" from the album The Good, the Bad & the Queen, a project with Damon Albarn on which Simonon plays bass. Paul reunited with Damon Albarn and Mick Jones on the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach, and was also the bassist of the Gorillaz live band supporting Plastic Beach, along with Mick Jones on guitar. The band headlined the 2010 Coachella Festival, and took up residence at the Camden roundhouse for two nights in late April 2010.

In 2011, Simonon spent time aboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza incognito under the guise of "Paul the assistant cook" in response to Arctic oil drilling in Greenland by Cairn Oil. He joined other Greenpeace activists in illegally boarding one of Cairn's oil rigs; an action which earned him two weeks in a Greenland jail. His identity was revealed to other crew members after the voyage, and he joined Damon Albarn and the other members of the Good, the Bad & the Queen for a performance in London celebrating Greenpeace's 40th anniversary.

Actor Pete Morrow portrays Simonon in the 2016 film London Town. The film was met with mixed reviews.

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Dame Vivienne Westwood's multi-millionaire son triumphs in court over a young mother who was unable to pay her rent, though she was fined almost £5,000

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 3, 2023
After being ordered to cough up the cash, Rebecca Shortt says she will be put under 'huge financial strain,' and there is 'zero chance' of paying Joseph Corré nearly £5,000. The young mother was unable to pay rent for six months from April to September at his cattle farm, which he owns between Bude and Morwenstow in North Cornwall. The 31-year-old, who has since relocated to mid-Cornwall, was taken to Bodmin County Court by the son of fashion designer Dame Vivienne and Sex Pistols boss Malcom McLaren, who claimed that it was not about the money. She told Deputy District Judge Inglis that she refused to pay as a result of a water leak, there was not enough water on the fields she used for her dairy cows and the farm was 'untenable.'