POP/ROCK - Dec. 3, 1987

Former Clash leader Joe Strummer will be sitting in with Shane MacGowan and his Irish folk-punkers the Pogues for their two-week U.S. tour (which includes opening slots with Los Lobos on Dec. 10 at Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre and Dec. 11 at the Hollywood Palladium, plus a headlining date Dec. 12 at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano). The fiery Strummer--filling in for Pogues guitarist Phillip Chevron, who’s suffering from ulcers--will bring a couple of Clash-identified songs to the Pogues show: “I Fought the Law” and “London Calling.”