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The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon (2008)

by The Clash(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1843547880 (ISBN13: 9781843547884)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Atlantic Books

review 1: For me, this is the ultimate coffee table book. It's chock full of cool photos and original archival materials, along with fairly extensive thoughts by all the members of the band. The first thing I did was look to see if my first Clash concert was mentioned. Yep, there it is: Oct 11, 1979, at the Hollywood Palladium. It was one of those proverbial concerts that changed my life.I've been reading the band commentaries over breakfast and then leafing through the pics on my couch, and this ritual has been making me very happy. This is an impressive, beautiful, and fairly comprehensive document of a band running on all cylinders. And its editors seemed to know what's important. For instance, that concert I attended in late-'79 is listed on page 230 of this 380-page, chronologi... morecal tome. So everything after London Calling comes across almost as a post-script, even though these were the band's moments of greatest fame. Hey, "Rock the Cashbah" is a pretty decent tune, but that's not why people were willing to bleed for that band. This coffeetable history manages to elegantly convey the urgency of The Clash's early years. When my son grows up and asks how in the hell I managed to dither away close to 20 years of my life watching and listening to rock 'n roll, I can hand him this book as Exhibit One in my defense.
review 2: All these years after my intense love of the Clash, and I still have things to learn about them. This book is a treasure trove. Loads and loads of photos, from all stages of their career (the early days are particularly wonderful) and commentary in their own words. I learned a lot from this book about how inclusive punk could be, how unabashed at their influences they were, and what synergy these four guys had. less

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