Today we mark the birthday of Paul Simonon — he’s turning 55 — with this performance of The Clash bassist’s signature tune, “The Guns of Brixton,” filmed April 25, 1980, for the band’s second-ever U.S. television appearance on ABC’s late-night show “Fridays,” a short-lived “Saturday Night Live” knockoff.
Simonon currently is playing in Damon Albarn’s cartoon act Gorillaz alongside former Clash bandmate Mick Jones; that band has denied reports this week that Simonon suffered a stroke while on tour in Australia, saying, simply, “he wasn’t feeling well.”
That’s not Alan Thicke, that’s Jack Burns, a comedian.
That’s not Alan Thicke. It’s Jack Burns, Fridays cast member and one half of Burns and Schreiber.
I stand corrected…