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TIL Joe Strummer, frontman of The Clash, was paid £100 to marry his first wife Pamela Moolman so she could obtain British citizenship. Afterwards, he began a long relationship with Gaby Salter, but couldn't marry her because he couldn't locate Moolman to divorce her first

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