The Clash On Track (Revised edition)

This revised edition adds previously unpublished material from Joe Strummer’s personal notebook and Ray Lowry’s archive. The Clash were an extraordinary band. Bursting out of the punk explosion in 1977, they recorded their self-titled first album over three weekends. It is now regarded as the quintessential punk record. Over the next five years, they recorded another fourteen sides of long-playing vinyl, including the platinum double LP London Calling, which was voted the best album of the 1980s and the eighth-best album of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. Through the triple-LP Sandinista! to their double-platinum Combat Rock plus a whole bunch of stand-alone singles and EPs, The Clash mixed both street and global politics with music spanning several genres, including rock, reggae, jazz, rap, calypso and rockabilly. It provides a concise narrative of the rise and fall of The Clash, putting each song of their prolific musical output into context, including a selection of