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The Clash: Music Machine, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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 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 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: Clash On Tour

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 15 July 1978

IT'S AS IF THE Clash's 'Police And Thieves' stage backdrop has suddenly transmogrified into moving 3-D. ...

The Clash on Broadway (2)

Interview by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, August 1994

Joe Strummer talks to Chris Salewicz ...

The Clash: Problems with The Roxy

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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: The Return of Native Paranoia

Report by Chris Salewicz, The Face, 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 ...

The Clash: Home On The Range

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, February 1981

PAUL SIMONON lives in a modest two-room Notting Hill basement flat just north of Ladbroke Grove tube station. ...

The Clash, The Sex Pistols: Punk: 1977 - Two Sevens Clash

Essay by Chris Salewicz, The History of Rock, 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 ...

Clash, The: 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. ...

Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Into the Heart of the Ark: An Audience with Lee

Book Excerpt by Chris Salewicz, Rock's Backpages, November 2000

In an excerpt from his book Rude Boy: Once Upon a Time in Jamaica, Chris Salewicz recounts his February 1978 meeting with legendary reggae producer ...

Big Audio Dynamite

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Q, October 1986

IN JULY last year Big Audio Dynamite were at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, recording their first album with Mick Jones producing. Early in ...

Anarchy in the UK

Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, The History of Rock, 1983

A nation watched aghast as punk reared its spiky head ...

Carbon/Silicon: Rock of ages

Profile and Interview by Chris Salewicz, Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2007

NOW IN THEIR FIFTIES, Mick Jones and Tony James have joined forces and formed the band Carbon/Silicon. Chris Salewicz meets the punk-rock legends. ...

Mikey Dread: The Dread Man Tells His Tale

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 17 January 1981

From radio star to toaster to production
 and recording star, Mikey Dread
 Campbell is still well in control ...

Slits, The, Subway Sect, The: Subway Sect, Slits: Music Machine, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977

Some-of-us-take-this-seriously Productions present: THE CAVORTINGS OF CREATIVE PEOPLE ...

Clash, The: Clash member will be the last white man in Hammersmith Palais

Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, The Evening Standard, 30 March 2007

A look back at the history of a London landmark, as a bandmate of Joe Strummer prepares for the final concert there before the bulldozers ...

Kiss: Is This Man A Prat?

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 26 August 1978

TWENTY-EIGHT year-old Gene Simmons of New York City, New York, is sitting in his hotel-room near Marble Arch. It's four o'clock on a humid Friday ...

The Jam, Or, How To Not Break In America (Because You Don't Want To)

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, March 1981

ON A DAMP, dank Sunday lunchtime the three pasty-faced, unhealthy-looking members of the Jam sit in an uncomfortably functional room in a nondescript London hotel ...

Clash, The, Tom Robinson Band, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex: 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 ...

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