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The Clash: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 6 November 1976 A ROW OF PARKED Vivas, Consuls and Zephyrs indicated that the ICA had an audience a little different to the usual. It was "A Night ...

Clash: The Clash; Give 'Em Enough Rope; London Calling; Sandinista!; Combat Rock; Cut The Crap Review by Mat Snow, Q, June 1989 UNLIKE THE Sex Pistols, the other great London punk-rock group had ambitions beyond delivering the short, sharp shock to the system suggested by the sudden ...

Joe Strummer: Definitely Not Admitting Defeat Yet Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 24 September 1999 "I THINK GOOD manners will come back. In America, kids saw punk rock as a licence to be as rude as possible. I didn't like ...

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The Clash's Mick Jones (1977) Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages Audio, 20 May 1977 The lanky plank-spanker in a wide-ranging conversation about politics, phlegm and – after Don Letts drops in – white reggae. File format: mp3; file size: 14.3mb, interview length: 15' 37" sound quality: ****

The Clash's Joe Strummer (1978) Interview by Howie Klein, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1978 A typically splendid Strummer interview: He explains Ska! He digs Steve Miller! He prefers the Sun to the Guardian! He's in hospital with hepatitis! Plus stuff on gobbing, politics, the upcoming 2nd Clash album etc. File format: mp3; file size: 25mb, interview length: 27' 17" sound quality: ***

The Clash's Paul Simonon (1978) Interview by Howie Klein, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 February 1978 The Clash's bassman talks about his life pre-Clash; the Clash's politics (personal and public); his development as a musician and a showman, and a whole lot more. File format: mp3; file size: 53.4mb, interview length: 58' 16" sound quality: ***

The Clash's Joe Strummer (1978) Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages Audio, 2 December 1978 Backstage at Newcastle Polytechnic, the Clash's frontman on the problems surrounding that night's gig; becoming part of the "rock establishment" and selling out; the production of Give 'Em Enough Rope; and Sid Vicious and the coincidence of 'Drug Stabbing Time'. File format: mp3; file size: 5.8mb, interview length: 14' 27" sound quality: *****

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The Clash: Rehearsal Rehearsals, Chalk Farm, London Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 21 August 1976 The first band to come along who'll really frighten the Sex Pistols ...

The Kursaal Flyers/Crazy Cavan/Clash: Roundhouse, London Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, September 1976 JOE STRUMMER'S Clash--the best new band of the year? Well, some would claim as much. At least you can guarantee that any band ...

Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks: Screen on the Green, Islington, London Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 September 1976 A STRANGE affair, this. And then some. ...

The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks: Screen On The Green, Islington, London Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976 Our Islington correspondent mingles with the Sex Pistols' portable audience looking for Johnny Rotten's toof. It's incisive stuff… ...

Parade Of The Punks Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976 THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, ...

The Sex Pistols, The Clash et al: Punk Rock Festival, 100 Club, London Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976 High dummy count flunks punks ...

The (?) Rock Special (#5): Other Bands Profile by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976 "I don't understand why people think it's so difficult to learn to play the guitar. I found it incredibly easy. You just pick a chord ...

Welcome To The (?) Rock Special (#1): In Love With The Modern World Overview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976 Johnny Rotten, the Clash, the Damned and a committed cast of hundreds of new music makers give the finger to the old farts ...

The Clash: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 30 October 1976 THE ICA, that home of lively experiment in London's Mall, is fast becoming the badly needed workshop-cum-watering hole for the growing number of jolly ravers ...

Roogalator/The Clash: Fulham Town Hall, London; The Vibrators: Nashville, London Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 6 November 1976 THIS ONE takes place in Fulham Town Hall and a glance tells you whoever designed this place had his sights firmly set on Cummerbund City. ...

The Clash, Suburban Studs: Barbarella's, Birmingham Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 November 1976 WEDNESDAY HAD been booked as Punk Night at Barbarellas, an excuse, if nothing else, for the club deejay to fall in love with the sound ...

The Clash: Barbarellas, Birmingham Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 November 1976 WEDNESDAY HAD been booked as Punk Night at Barbarellas, an excuse, if nothing else, for the club deejay to fall in love with the sound ...

The Clash: Down And Out And Proud Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 13 November 1976 THREE WEEKS AGO at London's ICA, Jane and Shane, regulars on the new-wave punk rock scene, were sprawled at the edge of the stage. Blood ...

The Clash: Nag's Head, High Wycombe Live Review by Kris Needs, Sounds, 27 November 1976 THE CLASH gave the provincial nightmare of High Wycombe an electric shock it won't soon forget last Thursday night. ...

London/The Clash Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, New York Rocker, December 1976 "WE'RE ONE up the arse for the rich, established groups... There's so many useless bands around it's not even worth naming any." ...

Sex Pistols, Damned, Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Leeds Polytechnic Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976 Punk! On stage! ...

The Clash: Eighteen Flight Rock... Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 11 December 1976 ...AND THE SOUND OF THE WESTWAY ...

Pistols, Clash etc.: What Did You Do On The Punk Tour, Daddy? Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 18 December 1976 The Sex Pistols/The Clash/The Heartbreakers /The Buzzcocks: Electric Circus, Manchester ...

Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Electric Circus, Manchester Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 December 1976 THREE DANCE bands playing the Electric Circus for the second time in ten days. They're back because the Circus is one of the very few ...

The 100 Club Punk Rock Festival Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977 Monday, September 20th: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Tuesday, September 21st: The Damned, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, the ...

The Clash Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977 WHEN I FIRST interviewed the Clash in their barrack like studio in Chalk Farm, they had yet to sign a record contract, although they were ...

The Clash etc: Harlesden's Burning Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 19 March 1977 The Clash/The Buzzcocks/The Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London ...

The Clash/Buzzcocks/Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 March 1977 NICK KENT comes out of hiding to offer himself as a 'punk' sacrifice to the ritualistic 'beat' of THE CLASH, THE BUZZCOCKS, THE SUBWAY SECT ...

The Clash: 'White Riot' (CBS) Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 19 March 1977 The Clash: there's a riot goin' on... ...

The Clash: Konkrete Klockwork Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977 AT THE MOMENT there isn't a group in the New Wave that comes within spitting distance of The Clash, live or on record. Within a ...

The Clash, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, Slits: Coliseum, Harlesden, London Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 9 April 1977 THE GRANDLY-NAMED COLISEUM in Harlesden, London, turned out somewhat grander than most people expected. It's no fleapit, more a small local theatre — complete with ...

The Clash: The Clash (CBS)***** Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 9 April 1977 If You Don't Like The Clash, You Don't Like Rock 'N 'Roll ...

Blind Date with Flo & Eddie Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1977 A monthly blindfold test by those masters of Slander Rock, Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan ...

The Clash: Palais des Glaces, Paris Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 7 May 1977 THE AUDIENCE at the Palais des Glaces, a sleazy 30's flea-pit with odd nooks where Parisians indulged in the bourgeois old-wave habit of getting high ...

The Front Line: On The Road With The Clash Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 May 1977 JOE STRUMMER says he'll smash my face in if I so much as print a syllable of what's said in the dressing room of the ...

The Clash, The Jam, The Buzzcocks: The Rainbow Theatre, London Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 21 May 1977 Rock n roll can be one of the few honest things left in this world.Yes.An event, a gathering of the clans.Yes.But it was all down ...

Clash In Euro-Rock Horror Report by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 20 August 1977 'Bilzen? more like Belsen' Clash, Damned: Bilzen Festival, Belgium ...

Belgium's Burning! The Clash in Europe Report by Robin Banks, ZigZag, September 1977 "Be not the first by whom the new are tried/Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." ...

The Clash, Generation X: Only in ZigZag! The New Clash Single! Review by Robin Banks, ZigZag, September 1977 THE CLASH: 'Complete Control'/'The City of the Dead' (CBS) ...

The Clash: The Clash (CBS 82000) Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, September 1977 TO PARAPHRASE (and soft-peddle) the kind of language that greeted Patti Smith's Horses, this Clash album is a tremendous debut. Of all the new wave bands ...

God, What A Bummer! Stuck Here With Joe Strummer! Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 3 September 1977 THE CLASH AT BELSEN... 'ALL JOURNALISTS ARE SWINE' BY CHRIS SALEWICZ, WHO DUCKS AND RUNS. ...

The Clash: Who's In Love With Janie Jones? Interview by Caroline Coon, Sounds, 15 October 1977 DURING THE hot summer of 1976, a No. 31 bus jolts through Notting Hill Gate. On the top deck is Mick Jones, humming a riff. ...

Clash in the City of the Dead Report and Interview by Caroline Coon, Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 29 October 1977 NO FUN IN BELFAST AND LONDONby GIOVANNI DADOMO & CAROLINE COON ...

Head On Clash Report by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 12 November 1977 TIM LOTT battles with Joe Strummer's boys and comes out dazed. ...

The Clash: Clash City Rockers On Tour Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977 DERBY KING'S HALL. The thickset geezer with the appearance of a frustrated rugby player – too short to make the scrum but just as tough ...

The Clash: Greatness from Garageland Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, February 1978 UNANNOUNCED, TO SAY the least, a kid in boots, suspenders and short-cropped hair clambers through the photographers' pit and up onto the stage of London's ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic JE 35543) Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 February 1978 THE CLASH IS A PUNK ROCK BAND and proud of it, but fans who dismiss it for that reason alone are making a mistake. This ...

Cult Figure Cuts Clash To Suit American Dream Machine Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 25 February 1978 SANDY PEARLMAN IS A BRISK and lively talker. He can probably offer an animated dissertation of any number of irregular topics, ranging from advancements in ...

Rock Against Racism Carnival: Victoria Park, Hackney, London Report by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 6 May 1978 AS HE STOOD at the top of Whitehall at 10.35 last Sunday morning gazing impassively towards Nelson's Column, the optimism of Commander Walker of Scotland ...

Blue Oyster Cult and Sandy Pearlman Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 13 May 1978 ERIC BLOOM is adamant about the current position and status of the band he sings and plays for, the am-aaa-zing Blue Oyster Cult; they are ...

The Clash: The 'Serious In-Depth Interview' You've Been Waiting For! Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 June 1978 "AAAWOOOEEEUUUOOO, PETE...'ear you bin to the States...how wazzit?" ...

The Clash Rule The New Wave Comment by Simon Frith, Creem, July 1978 ANYBODY WHO knows anything knows that the Clash is the best band in Britain; what is difficult to decide is if, in 1978, this means ...

The Clash: Drug Stabbing Time Report by Robin Banks, ZigZag, July 1978 CLASH STUDIO REPORT ...

The Clash/The Specials: Friar's, Aylesbury Live Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 8 July 1978 FOR PEOPLE who like to put things in neat little pecking orders – and because of our conditioning there's a lot of them – the ...

The Clash: Clash On Tour Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 15 July 1978 IT'S AS IF THE Clash's 'Police And Thieves' stage backdrop has suddenly transmogrified into moving 3-D. ...

The Clash, Suicide: The Music Machine, London Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 August 1978 TIME HAS come today. Third of four Music Machine gigs and  surprise!  the ritual bottling of Suicide appears to have been omitted for ...

The Clash: Problems with The Roxy Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 7 October 1978 I'D CALLED Mick Jones last Friday night The parsimonious Bernie Rhodes – who, though a replacement manager has yet to be found (and it is ...

The Clash: Queens University, Belfast Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978 THE LAST time The Clash tried to play The Ulster Hall a combination of big business insurance moguls and local bureaucratic bullshit caused the gig ...

The Clash: Black'n White Drop Outasite Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978 The Clash: Roxy Theatre, Harlesden ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (CBS 82431) Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 11 November 1978 The Clash: War 'n' pizza ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (CBS) Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978 White Punks On Rope ...

The Clash: Town Hall, Middlesbrough Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 25 November 1978 PERSPECTIVE. THE Clash are heroes (but not mine). ...

The Clash/The Slits: Village Bowl, Bournemouth Live Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1978 IT'S 5.30 in the morning and for some reason I'm stuck on a ledge halfway down a several hundred foot cliff overhanging Bournemouth beach... And ...

The Clash: Give 'em Enough Rope (CBS 82431) Review by Robin Banks, ZigZag, December 1978 A TRIUMPHANT roar of battles won. This album is a paean to victory than demands instant recognition and then leaves one gasping for breath, exhausted ...

Clash Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 December 1978 What, THEM again? Fraid so. No apologies... On The Road Fax by NICK KENT: Biro & Quiz ...

A Clash Of Interests Profile and Interview by Miles, Time Out, 15 December 1978 Will success spoil Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and Joe Strummer? Miles chronicles the decline of a movement and the rise of a rock ...

The Clash: Electric Ballroom/Lyceum London Live Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 1979 CLASH GIGS these days aren't the backs–against–the wall experience they used to be. The political tensions and confrontations they once represented are now just so ...

The Clash: Sending for the Cavalry Live Review by Mark Cooper, Sounds, 1979 The Clash: Live At The Roxy, Los Angeles A CLASH TREAT for their fans this, a five dollar ticket and a smaller setting than bands ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1979 THE CLASH HAVE been through a lot since they last released an album, almost 19 months ago, and so has the scene that they emerged ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic) Review by Alan Betrock, New York Rocker, January 1979 OKAY, SO I'M supposed to write this treatise on the new, long-delayed, Clash album — a task I'm quite looking forward to since I reckon ...

The Clash, The Slits: Music Machine, London Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 6 January 1979 A love that burns ...

The Clash: Music Machine, London Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 6 January 1979 LIKE THE few other rock bands that occasionally verge on genius  such at The Rolling Stones and the original Roxy Music  The Clash ...

The Clashmen Meet The Pearlman Report and Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, February 1979 "It wasn't the easiest thing I've ever I done, that's for sure." I had Sandy Pearlman, Record Producer, on the phone from some unnamed restaurant ...

The Clash In America Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 17 February 1979 "SO YOU think we lost the battle  then go home and weep about it. Sometimes youve got to wake up in the morning and ...

The Clash In L.A.: Just The Best Live Review by Don Snowden, LA Weekly, 23 February 1979 THE ARRIVAL in LA of The Clash, the hot English rock band, had been eagerly anticipated by local hard-core rockers ever since the release of ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic) Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1979 FUTURE SHOCK NOW (If You Want It) ...

The Clash, Bo Diddley,Pearl Harbor & The Explosions: Community Theater, Berkeley CA Live Review by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, April 1979 EXCEPT FOR the fact that they're probably the best performing band around, there's something almost superfluous to Clashness about the band's shows. Wait a minute ...

The Clash, Bo Diddley: The Palladium, New York NY Live Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, April 1979 DON'T EXPECT the back-Clash to start here. Since the Clash's smashingly successful Palladium debut, I have had some second thoughts, but none of these contradict ...

The Clash: The Fillmore, San Francisco Live Review by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, April 1979 EXCEPT FOR THE fact that they're probably the best performing band around, there's something almost superfluous to Clashness about the band's shows. Wait a minute ...

The Clash On Tour Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Creem, May 1979 DURING THE ten days between February 7 and 17, 1979, the people of Iran toppled the Shah; the American ambassador was assassinated in Afghanistan; President ...

Clash City Talkers: New York Meets Jones And Co. Report and Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1979 There's nothing quite as frustrating to watch as the hypocrisy of press, radio, and record companies rushing to get behind some new band that has ...

The Clash: Yes It's Strummer In The City Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979 HOT TOWN! Strummer in the city: walks into the Kings Road pub that serves as his temporary local while he's staying in Fulham dead on ...

ZigZag: The Party (The Pain) Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1979 IT WAS OUR party... the day ZigZag came OUT. An erratic monthly "fanzine" (not owned by IPC or any other gardening clubs) celebrated ten years ...

Clash Take The Fifth Report by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979 WHEN THE CLASH is in Chicago, there's enough people there to suggest America is waking up, even if the band still fall the wrong side ...

The Clash, Sam and Dave, the Undertones: Orpheum Theater, Boston Live Review by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, The, 22 September 1979 Clash makes the sparks fly. ...

Clash Bites Apple Live Review by Van Gosse, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979 FIRST time here, in February, the Clash were merely grand. The energy was awesome but the music was more volume than anything else; in the ...

The Clash Turn Pro (Sort Of) Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 29 September 1979 TUESDAY LUNCHTIME: Cleveland Airport. With a couple of hours to kill before my one-stop-only flight to Minneapolis and the first date on the Clashs second ...

Clash in NYC - Waiting for Ivan Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, 6 October 1979 ACCORDING TO reports, it was a hot, dead, airless summer in New York City. With nothing much happening on the local music scene, excitement centred ...

Clash USA '79 Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 October 1979 Details: The Scene ...

The Clash: The Fastest Gang In The West Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979 DETAILS: THE FIFTH MEMBER Micky Gallagher turned up in Boston. Four or five dates into the Clash itinerary and The Blockheads' jumpy Irish keyboardist slips ...

The Clash/Undertones/Sam & Dave: The Palladium, NYC Live Review by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, November 1979 THIS REVIEW is being turned in weeks late, and I know why. After all these years and all these bands, all the disappointing second albums ...

Rash Clash Mash In Motor City Bash Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1979 JOE STRUMMER and I are sitting in a bar, talking about his band. I ask him about I Fought the Law and its relatively unexpected ...

The Clash: London Calling (Epic) Review by Kris Needs, New York Rocker, December 1979 A DOUBLE album from the Clash, two discs for the price of one — but that's not the only surprise. Because the speed-rush buzzsaw roar ...

The Clash: London Calling Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 December 1979 "...the wit of the city's urchins is as sharp as the finest conversation of the rural lord; the vulgar speech of the street arabs is ...

The Clash: London Calling (CBS) ** Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 15 December 1979 Give 'em enough rope... and watch 'em turn into the Rolling Stones ...

Guy Stevens: “There Are Only Two Phil Spectors In The World And I Am One Of Them” Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 December 1979 Selected tableaux from The Guy Stevens Story. ...

The Clash: One Step Beyond Interview by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 29 December 1979 INSIDE THE CLASH'S new rehearsal studio, under a railway bridge somewhere in South London, Joe Strummer is singing a slow country blues about rolling boxcars, ...

Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Clash and Matumbi: A Concert for the People of Kampuchea Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 5 January 1980 It could only be cold comfort to them, but this isnt the first time rock n roll has played a distant part in the lives ...

The Clash: Rude Boy Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 January 1980 LONDON CALLING? It hardly covers the situation. Every is-or-was punk fan in the country must be quietly slavering to see the Clash film and apprehensive ...

The Clash: London Calling (Epic Records) Review by Michael Goldberg, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 January 1980 SINCE THIS English foursome first emerged in London in 1976, they have been at the very forefront of rock and roll. Their debut album, The ...

The Clash, Joe Ely, Mikey Dread: Electric Ballroom/Lyceum, London Live Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 23 February 1980 Fings ain't what they used to be ...

The Clash Play Revolution Rock Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, Trouser Press, March 1980 IT'S FOUR days before Christmas. A dark, early evening damp with snow and rain. Immediately south of the Thames, in the inappropriately genteel Victorian suburb ...

The Clash: Six Days On The Road And 16 Tons Of Fun… Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980 THE QUEST GOES ON, HIT THE DECK! ...

Rude Boy: Directed by Jack Hazan; Starring Ray Gange and The Clash; Cert X Film/DVD/TV Review by Robin Banks, ZigZag, April 1980 RUDE BOY CAN FAIL ...

The Clash Clamp Down on Detroit Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1980 Or: Give 'Em Enough Wisniowka ...

The Clash, Holly & the Italians: Hammersmith Palais, London Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 28 June 1980 Myth Man In The Hammersmith Palais ...

Clash At The Crossroads Interview by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, July 1980 OUTSIDE ON Eighth Street, among the pizza parlors and shoe stores, it's early evening. Inside Electric Lady studios, the house that Jimi built, it could ...

Rude Boy Produced and directed by Jack Hazan and David Mingay (Atlantic Releasing Corp.) Film/DVD/TV Review by Toby Goldstein, Creem, November 1980 Booed, Rude And Tattooed ...

The Clash: Joe Strummer Answers The Call-Up Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 13 December 1980 WORKING ON THE theory that if you give him enough rope he'll either hang or save himself, the following pages are left basically for the ...

The Clash: Sandinista! (CBS) Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 December 1980 OK, OK, they're a jolly prolific bunch always about to give their audience more than their money's worth, but  Christ, let's not mince words ...

The Clash: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 25 December 1980 Joe Strummer don't. Neither do The Clash. They just wanna make triple albums. David Hepworth raps (ouch!) ...

The Clash: Sandinista! Review by Van Gosse, Village Voice, The, 14 January 1981 CONFRONTING THE Clash's epic monstrosity Sandinista! is like being a teacher (which I once was) and having one of your favorite little buggers show up ...

The Clash: Home On The Range Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, Face, The, February 1981 PAUL SIMONON lives in a modest two-room Notting Hill basement flat just north of Ladbroke Grove tube station. ...

The Clash: Sandinista! Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, April 1981 The slapstick guerilla politics have never sounded more outlandishly unfashionable. Gone are the triple-front-line punk harmonics & amphetamine raw power. Ditto for the crunching metallic ...

The Clash: Sandinista! Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1981 THE FIRST TIME the Clash ventured into a recording studio they emerged with a concise blockbuster 45 ('White Riot') that deliv-ered the goods in under ...

Heart & Mind: The Paul Simonon Interview Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, May 1981 WHATEVER YOU think of the Clash — and I haven't much cared for them since 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' — a couple of things ...

The Clash Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 6 June 1981 STANDING BY the toilet door, the kid recognised him instantly. The hair piled up in a scraggy mess. The white leather jacket. The beautiful punkette ...

How The Clash Fed The Wonderbread Generation, Made The Mountain Come to Mohammed - And Other Miracles Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 20 June 1981 The winner of NME's Flatter The Clash competition checks out the ramifications when an English band's world is at Bonds. ...

The Clash: The Return of Native Paranoia Report by Chris Salewicz, Face, The, August 1981 IN HOT humid New York City, the eight Clash dates at Bonds discotheque had their number doubled following a first night raid by the Fire ...

Clash Credibility Rule! Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 10 October 1981 YES, IT'S TIME ONCE AGAIN TO REACH INSIDE THE NME CLOSET, BLOW THE DUST OFF THE OLD CLASH RULER, AND SEE HOW THE LADS ARE ...

The Clash and Stimulin at The Lyceum: The Parody Lingers On Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 24 October 1981 THE PATH of Joe Strummer is, as we know, lined with well-intentioned, golden-hearted errors, and the first of tonight's was Stimulin, whose sound mix was ...

Clash at the Apocalypse Hotel Report by Robin Banks, ZigZag, November 1981 "We're just waiting to be melted down .... have you ever seen a burning puma?" (Joe Strummer. 'Clampdown'. Paris. September '81.) ...

The Clash: Combat Rock (CBS) *** Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 15 May 1982 Gonna write a Clashic ...

The Clash: Up The Hill Backwards Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 29 May 1982 HALF PAST ONE on Portobello Road. Past the chippy, opposite the bookshop, within earshot of a man with an amplified mouth-harp honking and scything through ...

The Clash: Combat Rock (Epic FE 37689) Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 1982 CLASH ON THE BATTLEFIELD ...

Three Convictions on the Road From Hell Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 17 July 1982 The Clash: Fair Deal, Brixton, London ...

The Clash: Doubt and desperation on the edge of town Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 24 July 1982 From Garageland to hell with Joe Strummer of the Clash ...

The Clash: Combat Rock (Epic) Review by Roy Trakin, Musician, August 1982 IF YOU THOUGHT Sandinistal's epic sprawl would be edited down to a solid, filler-free album this time, guess again. Combat Rock reflects that triple-record set's ...

The Clash: Still Scruffy, But Now Rock Heroes Profile by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 5 September 1982 NEW YORK — Four musicians sauntered onto New York's Pier 84 Tuesday. Tall, gangly, ragtag and scarred, they looked like the scruffy street fighters they ...

The Clash: Revolution Rock Profile and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Downbeat, December 1982 IT'S AN UGLY voice. Gruff, guttural, uncouth, barbaric at times. Joe Strummer can't sing, not like an Al Jarreau or a Joni Mitchell, anyway. Lyrics ...

Combat Rockers Profile by Penny Valentine, History of Rock, The, 1983 IF THERE WAS one band that successfully rose above punks swift and premature decline, it was the Clash. Although historically the Sex Pistols remain the ...

Punk: 1977 - Two Sevens Clash Essay by Chris Salewicz, History of Rock, The, 1983 AS A REBEL MUSIC, punk rock had close affinities with reggae. When the punk movement found a focal point and place of worship in the ...

The Clash’s Greatest Hits: Clash City Rockers Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1983 "In 1977 I hope I go to heaven'Cos I been too long on the doleAnd I can't work at allDanger stranger — you better paint ...

Ginsberg Finds Poetry in Punk Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1983 WHEN THE Clash decided it wanted "the voice of God" in its last album, the group turned to Allen Ginsberg. The 56-year-old poet with the ...

US Festival ’83: No More In ‘84 Report by John Mendelsohn, Record, Summer 1983 AFTER PUNK, audiences weren’t supposed to pay large amounts of money anymore for the privilege of watching superstars from the length of a football field ...

The Clash: Pop Will Die... And Rebel Rock Will Rule Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 25 February 1984 "YOU DON'T TREAT your enemies better than you treat your friends." ...

A Fired-up Joe Strummer Brings his New Clash to America Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1984 Group gets back to its punk roots ...

The Clash: The Brixton Academy, London Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 17 March 1984 ONCE UPON a time when we were a little more naive than we like to admit, The Clash seemed pretty important, like they were the ...

The Mouth That Roared: The Return of The Clash Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Record, June 1984 Joe Strummer announces the Clash’s comeback in no uncertain terms. ...

The Clash: They Want To Spoil The Party So They'll Stay Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, October 1984 CREEM CONTRIBUTOR Mark Norton and I were talking several days before the Clash "invaded" Detroit, and we began discussing the concept of "armchair activism" and ...

Punk: Rogues Gallery Overview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986 TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE, AS TO WHERE THE ORIGINALS FROM '76 HAVE GONE; BE IT A WAYSIDE DITCH OR A MAJOR RECORD COMPANY WATER ...

The Clash: Cut The Crap (Epic); Big Audio Dynamite: This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Columbia) Review by Jon Young, Musician, January 1986 OUT OF THE ASHES: JOE STRUMMER ROCKS, MICK JONES SWINGS ...

Strummer on Man, God, Law – and the Clash Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 January 1988 HAS JOE STRUMMER lost his ambition and drive? It was strange last month to see one of rock's all-time most involving performers serving simply as ...

Joe Strummer Interview by Jon Savage, unpublished, 30 May 1988 This interview was for Jon Savage's classic punk book England's Dreaming, and is published here in its entirity for the first time. ...

Big Audio Dynamite: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll... Interview by William Shaw, Blitz, July 1988 ...but Mick Jones likes it. Jones has an old-fashioned attitude towards music which began long before his days as guitar hero with The Clash. His current band, Big Audio Dynamite, release ...

Peter Jenner Journeys Through The Minefields Of The Rock World Interview by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, The, 9 January 1990 IN HIS 46 years, Peter Jenner has seen a lot of rock 'n' roll, and a lot of rock 'n' rollers, come and go. He's ...

London: Ditty Old Town Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993 From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...

The Clash Book Excerpt by Ira Robbins, The Big Takeover, 1994 Even if the basic impetus for punk rock was just traditional teen needs like pissing off parents and claiming a cultural identity, some of the ...

The Clash: Clash on Broadway (Legacy) Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, June 1994 DID YOU know that The Clash's song, 'Career Opportunities', was written whilst the band feasted on potato croquettes from Kentucky Fried Chicken? ...

The Clash on Broadway Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, August 1994 IF THERE WAS ONE PIVOTAL EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE Clash's assault on the USA it was the season of 17 shows they played ...

The Clash on Broadway (2) Interview by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, August 1994 Joe Strummer talks to Chris Salewicz ...

Clash/Subway Sect/Slits/Prefects: Chancellor Hall, Chelmsford Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, New Musical Express, October 1994 BORED TEENAGERS – SUBURBAN HICKS with soap-stiffened Sid Vicious barnets and bleeding earlobes gape in awestruck, whey-faced wonder. Chelmsford, anonymous epicentre of NOWHERE is playing ...

Punk Venues: London Calling Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, July 1995 Summer, 1976. Punk, live punk, is about to explode in the capital. Tap rooms, Poly bars and sweaty clubs will host its unwashed greats. Johnny Black looks ...

Sid Vicious: Disgusting of Tunbridge Wells Essay by Peter Silverton, Observer, The, 23 June 1996 Pete Silverton was busy celebrating his 21st with aunties and uncles, and the promise of a pewter mug. Then who should turn up but Sid ...

The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Heartbreakers, The Buzzcocks: Destination Nowhere Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, December 1996 Twenty years ago this month, the Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned, Heartbreakers and Buzzcocks embarked upon the Anarchy Tour. What followed more than lived up to ...

The Clash: A Career Overview Overview by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, June 1999 IN 1977, ROCK'N'ROLL WASN'T merely a peripheral diversion to take your mind off of the mortgage on a Saturday night, it was a matter of ...

The Clash: From Here to Eternity Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 19 October 1999 ON PAPER, the October 1982 pairing of the Clash and the Who at Shea Stadium in New York should have been historic. And maybe it ...

Reggae: Back to the Roots Essay by Simon Reynolds, Wire, The, September 2000 According to the remixologists' gospel, the dub virus was so successful, it took out the word and eradicated its reggae song hosts. Simon Reynolds rediscovers ...

Various Artists: Cash From Chaos: The Complete Punk Collection Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, February 2002 Perverse selection – from New York Dolls to Gonads, Buzzcocks to Toy Dolls — misses chance to be definitive summary ...

The Clash's 'Train in Vain' Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, May 2002 Song title: 'Train In Vain' Artist: The Clash Label: CBS Performers: Mick Jones – guitar/vocals Joe Strummer – guitar Paul Simenon – bass Topper ...

Joe Strummer is Dead; Long Live the Clash! Obituary by Gavin Martin, CounterPunch, 24 December 2002 THE CHRISTMAS CARD from Joe Strummer and family arrived by email on Sunday night, a seasonal greeting accompanied by Joe's colourful illustration of a fantasy ...

Less Rotten Than Reasonable: Joe Strummer and My Punk Damascus Memoir by Simon Warner, PopMatters, 27 December 2002 ALTHOUGH I saw Joe Strummer in action many times, I only met him once and, embarrassingly, confused him with someone else. ...

Up In Heaven: Joe Strummer, 1952-2002 Obituary by Fred Mills, Seattle Weekly, 8 January 2003 Why should we assume people get worse [with age]? I think you should just get on with it. Look at Paul Newman. And the Sufis ...

Joe Strummer: Comrade, Goodbye Memoir by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, March 2003 SOMETIME IN 1979, I WAS interviewing Joe Strummer for the NME in the Worlds End pub on the King's Road. As well as giving me ...

The Clash: London Calling (25th Anniversary Legacy Edition) Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 22 September 2004 IN 1979, London Calling was sold with a sticker declaring that the Clash were the only band that matters, and they acted as if they ...

Band at their Best: The Clash's London Calling Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, October 2004 In 1979, with punk reeling from the death of Sid Vicious, the Clash holed up in a small London studio under pressure to reignite the ...

The Clash: London Calling 25th Anniversary Retrospective by Ben Myers, Record Collector, October 2004 BY EARLY 1979, to the outside world The Clash were coasting. In their three short years of existence they had signed to Sony for a ...

Paul Simonon: London's Most Handsome Man Interview by Ben Myers, 3ammagazine.com, November 2004 IT'S ALL ABOUT poise. If you don't have poise – definition "balance; a dignified and self-assured manner" – in rock 'n' roll, you're nothing. Paul ...

The Clash: Vanilla Tapes Report and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, November 2004 THE VANILLA material is clearly aimed at Clash collectors who routinely snap up underground recordings of the band. As Simonon himself freely volunteered, hes not ...

Joe Strummer: The Man Who Would Be King Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, 2005 The 101'ers were about to hit the big time. But then Joe Strummer found punk. ...

Punks, Nazis, Skins and the Clash's Finest Hour Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, August 2007 Rock Against Racism: Tom Robinson thinks of it as "the punk Woodstock" and it was the moment that punk went overground and people's band the ...

Spotlight On The Clash — London Calling Memoir by Kris Needs, Clash, December 2009 IT DOESN'T seem 30 years since that night at Wessex Studios when The Clash were putting the finishing touches on London Calling. We'd been sitting ...

30 Years Ago Today... Sandinista! Retrospective by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 13 December 2010 IN ALL THE hoopla over the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's murder another significant 30th anniversary seemed to slip by. The Clash released Sandinista! 30 ...

Vinyl Icon: The Clash Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, May 2011 UNUSUALLY, FOR AN ALBUM awarded Vinyl Icon status, the "fi" of The Clash's eponymous debut is not of the highest. It is, however, an album ...

The Clash: Sound System Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, October 2013 WITH A WHIFF of revisionism about it, Sound System collects the Clash's output up tothe departure of guitarist Mick Jones,ignoring 1985's Cut The Crap but ...

Paul Simonon: The Clash's Ace of Bass Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, Rake, The, August 2017 Without him, The Clash would still have been a great band, but with him they became iconic. Paul Simonon was built for rock 'n' roll and ...

Casbah Rock: A Death Threat against the Clash Book Excerpt by Stuart Bailie, 'Trouble Songs' (Bloomfield), May 2018 Excerpted from Trouble Songs: Music and Conflict in Northern Ireland ...

see also 101'ers, The

see also Big Audio Dynamite

see also Good The Bad and The Queen, The

see also Joe Strummer

see also Carbon/Silicon

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