Plaza de Joe Strummer inaugurated in Granada
Source: The Guardian
It is a small square, set away on the far side of the magnificent Alhambra complex, but friends say the Placeta Joe Strummer inaugurated on Monday evening in the southern Spanish city of Granada would have delighted the Clash frontman.
With its white walls, reddish sand, pine trees, carved drinking fountain and views of the spectacular Sierra Nevada, the square reverberated on Monday night to the sound of Spanish Bombs, London Calling and other Strummer songs as musician friends from Britain and Spain gathered to celebrate.
"He liked the city a lot," said Esperanza Romero, whose family first brought Strummer to what would become one of his favourite cities. "For me he was like a soul brother."
Romero and Strummer shared a west London squat when he was a struggling musician and her sister Paloma was the future Clash singer's girlfriend – sparking his interest in Spain and the city where their brother Fernando was studying, Granada.
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Maybe the 'American Beauty' of the punk generation?
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Miss you dude.
