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Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the punk rock band the Clash. More recent work includes his involvement in the project ''The Good, the Bad & the Queen'' in 2007 with Damon Albarn, Simon Tong and Tony Allen and the Gorillaz album, ''Plastic Beach'' in 2010, which along with Albarn saw him reunite with Mick Jones. ==Biography== Simonon was born in Thornton Heath, South London. His father, Gustave, was an amateur artist and his mother, Elaine, was a librarian. He grew up in both the South London area of Brixton and Ladbroke Grove in West London, spending around a year in Siena and Rome, Italy with his mother and stepfather. Before joining the Clash, he had planned to become an artist and attended the Byam Shaw School of Art, then based in Campden St, Kensington. In 1976, he met Mick Jones and six months later the Clash was formed when Joe Strummer joined, with Jones on lead guitar. Simonon learned his bass parts by rote from Jones in the early days of The Clash and still did not know how to play the bass when the group first recorded. He is credited with coming up with the name of the band and was mainly responsible for the visual aspects such as clothing and stage backdrops.〔 Related news articles: * 〕 He was also immortalised on the front cover of the band's double album ''London Calling'': Pennie Smith's image of him smashing his bass has become one of the iconic pictures of the punk era.〔〔Topping 2004, p.12.〕〔Green 2003, pp.195–196.〕〔Sweeting, Adam. "Death or Glory". ''Uncut''. October 2004. p.70.〕 Simonon played bass on almost all of the Clash's songs. Recordings that he did not play on include: "The Magnificent Seven" and "Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)" on ''Sandinista!'' (played by Norman Watt-Roy), "Rock the Casbah" on ''Combat Rock'' (played by Topper Headon), and 10 of the 12 tracks on ''Cut the Crap'' (played by Norman Watt-Roy). ''Sandinista!'' featured bass played by Jones or Strummer, some but possibly not all of which Simonon later re-recorded once he rejoined the sessions after filming ''Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains''.〔 Simonon's contrapuntal reggae/ska-influenced lines set him apart from the bulk of other punk rock bassists of the era in their complexity and the role of the bass guitar within the band.〔Prato, Greg. (Paul Simonon Biography ). allmusic.com. Retrieved on 24 February 2008.〕 After the Clash dissolved in 1986, Simonon started a band called Havana 3am. They recorded one album in Japan before breaking up. He also participated in a Bob Dylan session along with the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones that became part of the Dylan album ''Down in the Groove''. Also, Simonon works as an artist – his first passion before joining the Clash. He has had several gallery shows, and designed the cover for Big Audio Dynamite's album, ''Tighten Up, Vol. 88'', as well as the cover for "Herculean" from the album ''The Good, the Bad and the Queen'', a project with Damon Albarn on which Simonon plays bass. In 2008, after a seven-year gap, Simonon began exhibiting paintings again with an exhibition at Thomas Williams Fine Art, London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Paul Simonon )〕 One of his paintings was bought by British singer Lily Allen for £23,500, according to the ''Telegraph'' newspaper. Paul reunited with Damon Albarn and Mick Jones on the Gorillaz album ''Plastic Beach'', and was also the bassist of the Gorillaz live band supporting ''Plastic Beach'', along with Mick Jones on guitar. The band headlined the 2010 Coachella Festival, and took up residence at the Camden roundhouse for two nights in late April 2010. In 2011, Simonon spent time aboard the Greenpeace vessel ''Esperanza'' incognito under the guise of "Paul the assistant cook" in response to Arctic oil drilling in Greenland by Cairn oil. He joined other Greenpeace activists in illegally boarding one of Cairn's oil rigs; an action which earned him two weeks in a Greenland jail. His identity was revealed to other crew members after the voyage, and he joined Damon Albarn and the other members of the Good, the Bad, and the Queen for a performance in London celebrating Greenpeace's 40th anniversary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Simonon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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