Joe Strummer, RIP.
''The Minstrel Boy"
Joe Strummer's rendition of "The Minstrel Boy" from John Huston's "The Man Who Would Be King" in Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down"
strikes me as one of the great works of art of the 21st Century.
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Joe Strummer's dad, like Kipling, was born in India when it was part of the British Empire.
I've never heard Ridley Scott's explanation for choosing this song, but it fits together artistically -- Irish song about war, Scots-Irish American soldiers fighting in some utterly remote part of the world for God knows what reason...
RIP, Joe. "Rudie Can't Fail" will always be on my play list. No amount of inbred Somali goat-f*ers will ever be worth the life of a single US serviceman.