That persisted from James Dean to Joe Strummer to Kurt Cobain.
Meanwhile in the UK, Class 47 Locomotive 47828 was renamed the Joe Strummer in 2005.
Strummer, who name-checked Granada in The Clash's London Calling album track Spanish Bombs, died in 2002.
The magazine gave its Godlike genius award to the Clash, whose singer Joe Strummer died in December.
Strummer's legacy has been underpinned since his death by Strummerville - the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music.
The wall opposite is covered with photographs and cuttings, including an interview with the late Clash singer Joe Strummer.
Punk rocker Joe Strummer is to have a city square named after him in Spain following a Facebook campaign.
Politics has always been an important part of Bragg's approach to music and he took his lead from Joe Strummer.
Costello and Springsteen performed London Calling as a tribute to The Clash and their frontman Joe Strummer, who died in December.
City hall officials agreed to the proposals and a square in the area is to be renamed Plaza de Joe Strummer.
Soon he was teaching himself, staying one week ahead of the students he taught, and within weeks he was a skilled strummer.
Actors Jeremy Irons, Terence Stamp and Monty Python star Michael Palin take to the stage alongside Strummer to give readings throughout the charity evening on 10 November.
Strummer, who died of a heart ailment in 2002, at the age of fifty, was the son of an English diplomat and travelled extensively throughout his childhood.
In the late seventies and early eighties, Joe Strummer, one of the leaders of the Clash, wrote and performed some of the most mercurial rock-and-roll songs ever heard.
Strummer - who once railed against the ruling classes as The Clash's frontman - is among the few punk leading lights to have refused offers to reform his band.
When Joe Strummer, the lead singer of the Clash, approached the Ramones after seeing them play in 1976, he was worried that his band's musicianship was still too rough for them to begin performing.
The latter was directed by her father Julien Temple whose work includes Sex Pistols film The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, pop videos for David Bowie, and documentaries about Kinks singer Ray Davies and Joe Strummer of The Clash.
Also from the England, Palma Violets played with fits of rage propelled by smash-and-bash drummer William Martin Doyle as Samuel Thomas Fryer and Chilli Jesson split the lead vocals, like Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash.
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The local Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) backed the campaign to honour Strummer's name, with a spokesman saying the musician embodied the "atmosphere of youth, rebellion, night and rock" and had "carried the name of Granada... for the entire world".
The Cottagers came out for the second half to the sound of The Clash's London Calling and whether it was the sound of manager Mark Hughes's half-time team talk or Joe Strummer's rallying call, the home side looked a lot more lively.
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