Lot 97
  • 97

The 101ers - Joe Strummer

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • The 101ers - Joe Strummer
  • Beat Music Dynamite. Original poster. London, 1976.
  • Ink and paper
40 x 25 1/4 in; 1016 x 641 mm; printed in black and red, paperbacked, designed Julian Yewdall (J.Y 76), one of the members of the band, with possible contributions by Joe Strummer. The poster was printed at the London College of Printing, in a batch of no more than one hundred. Very good condition.
Very rare, only one other copy, torn, was sold the last 5 years for 1,200 $.

Catalogue Note

The '101ers' was Joe Strummer's first group, named after their squat at 101 Walterton Terrace or maybe after "Room 101" in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
On 3 April 1976, the Sex Pistols opened for The 101'ers at a venue called "The Nashville Rooms" in London. Strummer commented about the show: "5 seconds into their first song, I knew we were like yesterday's paper, we were over." He left the band for The Clash and became a major figure of the British Punk movement.