Pretend for a minute, you're 15 again and you don't look a tit if you say the word cool. Who was the coolest member of the Clash?

[ranting]

My vote is Paul Simoneon.

See, Topper got a mention! Even if we just 'think' he might be a nice chap.

paul simeneon def
have his autograph ..somewhere

You have his autograph? Did you actually meet him.

Topper Headon. Because he was the only one who wasn't clearly obsessed with being cool. Obsession with coolness is uncoolest thing imaginable.

Didn't you want to be cool when you were young and frisky AllFallDown?

The "cool" people were all tossers, so I ended up happy to go my own way. "Cool" people are almost always self-obsessed bores, don't you find? Why would anyone want to be like that? As Joe Strummer once said, with unintentional irony: "Like trousers, like brain."

The Clash weren't a cool band

mick jones

I say cool all the time - I'm 30...

I should stop shouldn't I? [blush}