Aborted (The Clash album)

The Clash's aborted seventh studio album would have been the first since 1986's Cut the Crap. Slated for release in the early 2000s, it was hampered by the death of Joe Strummer in 2003 from a heart defect.
The album came about as Joe Strummer was working with Mick Jones for what Jones thought was gonna be the next Mescaleros album. They wrote a batch of songs for the supposed album, but months went by before Strummer and Jones communicated again, with it being a chance run in at a event attended by both. Jones had asked Strummer what had become of the songs he and Joe wrote and Joe said that they were for the next Clash album, which would've made it their first album since Cut the Crap was released in 1986 and their first with Mick Jones (and probably the rest of the classic line up) since Combat Rock in 1982. In 2003, Joe Strummer died suddenly of a heart defect in 2003, effectively squashing the reunion and the album's release. There was no known title for this album. Had the album been released, it would have been on the Epic label as, even though they dropped Joe Strummer following the disappointing sales of the Earthquake Weather created with his backing band The Latino Rockabilly War, there was a clause in which Strummer would have been forced to work with Epic if he had decided to reunite The Clash with new or classic members. Mick Jones confirmed this in an October 2013 BBC 6Music.
Personnel
It is rumored that the line up from the Combat Rock album would have appeared on this album.
*Joe Strummer
*Mick Jones
*Topper Headon
*Paul Simonon

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