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Joe Strummer walking out of the Louvre carrying a rolled-up Mona Lisa under his arm.

Daddy Was a Gallery Robber

Updated 2026-08-20

21 August brings together punk rock and one of the most audacious art thefts in history. On 21 August 1952, Joe Strummer was born in Ankara, Turkey. He would go on to become the frontman of The Clash, one of the defining bands of the British punk movement. Exactly 41 years earlier, on 21 August […]

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Koachella

Updated 2026-08-02

Happy birthday to Fatboy Slim! Few artists are as closely associated with Britain’s seaside culture as Norman Cook. His landmark 1998 album You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby became one of the defining electronic music albums of its era, before he transformed Brighton Beach into the venue for the legendary Big Beach Boutique in 2002. […]

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