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The Clash: Still Scruffy, But Now Rock Heroes

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 might have become had they not been hailed as "the only rock band that matters."

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