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The Clash at the Rainbow, London, December 1977. Photo: Jill Furmanovsky
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The Clash: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Live Review by Miles, NME, April 1977
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, 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 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: ***
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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 ...
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks: Screen On The Green, Islington, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1976
Our Islington correspondent mingles with the Sex Pistols' portable audience looking for Johnny Rotten's toof. It's incisive stuff… ...
Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 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 Clash: Barbarellas, Birmingham
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 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, 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: Eighteen Flight Rock...
Interview by Miles, NME, 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, 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, NME, 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 ...
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/Buzzcocks/Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, 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 etc: Harlesden's Burning
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, March 1977
The Clash/The Buzzcocks/The Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London ...
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: The Clash (CBS)*****
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, April 1977
If You Don't Like The Clash, You Don't Like Rock 'N 'Roll ...
The Clash, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, Slits: Coliseum, Harlesden, London
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 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: Palais des Glaces, Paris
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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 Clash, The Jam, The Buzzcocks: The Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 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 ...
The Clash: Who's In Love With Janie Jones?
Interview by Caroline Coon, Sounds, 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. ...
Report by Caroline Coon, Sounds, October 1977
AT FIRST the band were reluctant to have their photo taken anywhere near the soldiers. "They'll think we're here to entertain the troops," said Strummer. ...
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, 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, NME, 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, NME, 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, 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, June 1978
"AAAWOOOEEEUUUOOO, PETE...'ear you bin to the States...how wazzit?" ...
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/The Specials: Friar's, Aylesbury
Live Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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, NME, 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, NME, 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, NME, 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, NME, November 1978
The Clash: Roxy Theatre, Harlesden ...
The Clash: Town Hall, Middlesbrough
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 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 ...
Profile and Interview by Miles, Time Out, 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: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 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, L.A. Weekly, 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: The Fillmore, San Francisco
Live Review by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, March 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: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1979
FUTURE SHOCK NOW (If You Want It) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Report by Paul Morley, NME, 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 ...
Live Review by Van Gosse, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 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, 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 ...
The Clash: The Fastest Gang In The West
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 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 ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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, December 1979
"THE HELL with it! Let chaos reign, louder music, more wine, the hell with the standings, the top rungs are up for grabs. All the ...
Guy Stevens: “There Are Only Two Phil Spectors In The World And I Am One Of Them”
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1979
Selected tableaux from The Guy Stevens Story. ...
Interview by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 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, NME, 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 ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 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: Six Days On The Road And 16 Tons Of Fun…
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980
THE QUEST GOES ON, HIT THE DECK! ...
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 Clamp Down on Detroit
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, June 1980
Or: Give 'Em Enough Wisniowka ...
Review by Nick Kent, NME, 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: Joe Strummer Answers The Call-Up
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 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 and Stimulin at The Lyceum: The Parody Lingers On
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 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 ...
Review by Van Gosse, Village Voice, 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Report and Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, NME, 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 ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, 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: Combat Rock (CBS) ***
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, May 1982
Gonna write a Clashic ...
The Clash: Up The Hill Backwards
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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 ...
Three Convictions on the Road From Hell
Live Review by Richard Cook, NME, July 1982
The Clash: Fair Deal, Brixton, London ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
US Festival ’83: No More In ‘84
Report by John Mendelsohn, Record, The, 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, NME, February 1984
"YOU DON'T TREAT your enemies better than you treat your friends." ...
The Clash: The Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 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, The, 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 ...
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 ...
Strummer on Man, God, Law – and the Clash
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 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 ...
Interview by Jon Savage, unpublished, 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. ...
Essay by Peter Silverton, Observer, The, 1991
At this distance, all I can remember for certain is the gangle of his legs and the pinch of his cheeks. ‘This is John,’ said ...
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? ...
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 ...
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, NME, 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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
Joe Strummer is Dead; Long Live the Clash!
Obituary by Gavin Martin, CounterPunch, 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, 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, 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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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