In some ways, Paul Simonon is coming full circle: He went to the Byam Shaw School of Art to be a painter and left to become a musician. Art school as band breeding ground is hallowed tradition in England, from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd in the '60s to Franz Ferdinand and Keane today. It's at Byam that Simonon met guitarist Mick Jones, later hooking up with an art school dropout, singer Joe Strummer, to form the Clash.... -
Simonon, From Paint to Punk And Back Again
In some ways, Paul Simonon is coming full circle: He went to the Byam Shaw School of Art to be a painter and left to become a musician. Art school as band breeding ground is hallowed tradition in England, from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd in the '60s to Franz Ferdinand and Keane today. It's at Byam that Simonon met guitarist Mick Jones, later hooking up with an art school dropout, singer Joe Strummer, to form the Clash....-
By Richard Harrington