Rockers in the Streets: Joe Finds Power on 14th

By this point in the proceedings, most Clash fans have probably seen Roberta Bayley's portrait of Joe Strummer in front of a Lower East Side Barber shop in 1980. I first spied it in the excellent photo collection "Blank Generation Revisited." It always slightly bugged me, however, in that I couldn't accurately pinpoint the actual barber shop. Who knows if it's even still there? It probably isn't.

Years later, however, I was thrilled to find a different shot from the same session, this one finding our Joe (still with cowboy hat on) lighting up a smoke on the Eastern fringes of 14th Street. I put it up here -- much like Bayley's more celebrated shot -- on one of the anniversaries of the great man's death. The particular strip of real estate depicted in that second shot actually looks pretty much the same today (which normally isn't the case).

Earlier this week, however, I was thrilled to find (on Tumblr) a third take from that same day. This one finds our Joe perusing what must have been a street-side used bookstore. Joe's brandishing a paperback emblazoned with a clenched fist and the title "POWER."

In the fine tradition of these two posts, I decided to take my kids out for a bite to eat and replicate that shot in the precise location. I think we managed it. What do you think?

Also: Who can identify the paperback?