![]() ** Jimmy Cliff: **I and the Clash used to cross each other’s path when we did concerts in Europe. GQ: How did you hook with Strummer in the first place? ![]() ** Jimmy Cliff: **It’s a song called "Over the Border." It’s on the last album I made, Fantastic Plastic. So I thought it was really a cool thing to do. He was one of the people who took the reggae music, brought the punk feeling to it and established that branch of it in Europe, before it spread over to the U.S. ![]() Actually the last song that wrote before he passed away, was a song that, when I was doing my last album, he just walked into the studio with the lyrics. They were great fans of Jimmy Cliff, in addition to the fact that was saying things about The Harder They Come and all of that. ** Jimmy Cliff: **Oh, that track was a suggestion from someone in my management, because I had known The Clash back in the day. GQ: Where did The Clash track, "Guns of Brixton," fit into that spectrum? I was really amazed that Tim got the drum patterns down so fantastic. And then the rocksteady-type tracks he got down-especially the drum patterns. ** Jimmy Cliff: **Yeah, I’ve always wanted to incorporate the whole spectrum of reggae music from the ska era right up to this era.
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