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We Are The Clash

Author : Mark Andersen,Ralph Heibutzki
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617756504

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“An ambitious look at the last days of the Clash . . . as much a political history of the 1980s as it is a look at an influential band in its final years.”—Publishers Weekly The Clash was a paradox of revolutionary conviction, musical ambition, and commercial drive. We Are The Clash is a gripping tale of the band’s struggle to reinvent itself as George Orwell’s 1984 loomed. This bold campaign crashed headlong into a wall of internal contradictions and rising right-wing power. While the world teetered on the edge of the nuclear abyss, British miners waged a life-or-death strike, and tens of thousands died from US guns in Central America, Clash cofounders Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, and Bernard Rhodes waged a desperate last stand after ejecting guitarist Mick Jones and drummer Topper Headon. The band shattered just as its controversial final album, Cut the Crap, was emerging. Andersen and Heibutzki weave together extensive archival research and in-depth original interviews with virtually all of the key players involved to tell a moving story of idealism undone by human frailty amid a climatic turning point for our world. “The Clash’s final chapter, after guitarist Mick Jones’ 1983 departure, has largely been forgotten—until this book, in which authors Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki argue that the punk pioneers were still creating vital music to the very end.”—Rolling Stone, an RS Picks/New Books “Focuses on a very different moment in the band’s history: the point at which the group splintered in the early 1980s, and its members grappled with an onset of reactionary governments around the world.”—Vol. 1 Brooklyn “One of the most rewarding music books you’ll come across this year.”—Johns Hopkins Magazine

The Clash

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629639482

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THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS. Established in 1976 at the fore London’s punk rock insurgence, The Clash would outlast their peers while creating some of the most influential albums in rock ’n’ roll history. Author Martin Popoff dissects each of the Clash’s ninety-one studio tracks, examining the circumstances that led to their creation, the recording processes, the historical contexts and more. In addition, introductory essays set the scene for the band’s six studio releases (including the double LP London Calling and the triple Sandinista!) and feature sidebars detailing studios, release dates, personnel, and more. Illustrated with rare performance and offstage photography, along with images of 7-inch singles sleeves and gig posters, the resulting volume is a fitting tribute to the foursome whose staunch political stance and groundbreaking amalgam of punk, rockabilly, reggae, and hip-hop earned the title “The Only Band That Matters.”

Mad, Bad and Dangerous - The Book of Drummers' Tales

Author : Spike Webb
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857829976

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Mad, Bad and Dangerous - The Book of Drummers' Tales by Spike Webb Pdf

Never have so many famous drummers been gathered together in one place! Drummer and writer Spike Webb has spent more than three years meeting fellow drummers in bars, clubs and cafes, shooting the breeze for a couple of hours and extracting anecdote after anecdote for posterity. This is truly a labour of love - and somebody had to do it. In this book you'll meet drummers like Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Don Powell (Slade), Adam Facek (Babyshambles), Steve White (Paul Weller), Topper Headon (The Clash), Woody (Madness) and world-class session players like Toto's drummer Simon Phillips. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant but always entertaining, it's the ultimate insight into what it really means to be a drummer and an explanation, at last, for what really makes someone do a 20-minute solo. You'll be asking for an encore!

Route 19 Revisited

Author : Marcus Gray
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781593762933

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Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a “recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.” It topped polls on both sides of the Atlantic for the best album of the seventies (and eighties) and in publications as wide-ranging as Rolling Stone, VIBE, Pitchfork, and NME, and it regularly hits the top ten on greatest-albums-of-all-time-lists. Even its cover—the instantly recognizable image of Paul Simonon smashing his bass guitar—has attained iconic status, inspiring countless imitations and even being voted the best rock ’n’ roll photograph ever by Q magazine. Now the breakthrough album from the foremost band of the punk era gets the close critical eye it deserves. Marcus Gray examines London Calling from every vantage imaginable, from the recording sessions and the state of the world it was recorded in to the album’s long afterlife, bringing new levels of understanding to one of punk rock’s greatest achievements. Leaving no detail unexplored, he provides a song-by-song breakdown covering when each was written and where, what inspired each song, and what in turn each song inspired, making this book a must-read for Clash fans.

A Riot of Our Own

Author : Johnny Green,Garry Barker
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781474611190

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A Riot of Our Own by Johnny Green,Garry Barker Pdf

'Hugely enjoyable ... Green's great achievement is to recapture exactly how those moments felt, but remain sufficiently detached about the whole thing to render the experience honestly' MOJO Johnny Green first met the Clash in 1977. A RIOT OF OUR OWN is his tale of three delirious years of rock 'n' roll madness as confidant and road manager of the Clash, from the early punk days to LONDON CALLING and touring America. Ray Lowry accompanied the band as official 'war artist' on the second American tour and designed the London Calling album cover. Together, in words and pictures, Green and Lowry give the definitive, inside story on one of the most magnificent rock 'n' roll bands ever.

Passion is a Fashion

Author : Pat Gilbert
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781845138028

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Pat Gilbert’s definitive biography of the Clash – universally acclaimed as a great book – has already sold over 20,000 copies in paperback. Now, for the 30th anniversary of the band’s classic London Calling album, it is reissued with a stunning new cover. For the book Pat Gilbert – a former Mojo editor with the highest credentials – talked to everyone, in over 70 interviews with the key participants – roadies, producers, friends and fans - and above all the band members themselves, including Joe Strummer before his death, to be able to give the first real insight into what went on behind the scenes during the Clash’s ten-year career. With the surge in interest generated by the Shea Stadium live CD and the official Clash book, Passion Is A Fashion will attract a new sale as the only truly indispensable Clash book.

Stealing All Transmissions

Author : Randal Doane
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629630489

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Stealing All Transmissions is a love story. It’s the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977, when select rock journalists and deejays aided the band’s quest to depose the rock of indolence that dominated American airwaves. This history situates The Clash amid the cultural skirmishes of the 1970s and culminates with their September 1979 performance at the Palladium in New York City. This concert was broadcast live on WNEW, and it concluded with Paul Simonon treating his Fender bass like a woodcutter’s ax. This performance produced one of the most exhilarating Clash bootleg recordings, and the photo of Simonon’s outburst which graced the cover of the London Calling LP was recently deemed the greatest rock’n’roll photograph of all time. That night marked one of the last opportunities for American audiences to see The Clash as a punk band, teetering between conviction and uncertainty, before they became a seriously brilliant rock group. Stealing represents a distinctive take on the history of punk, for no other book gives proper attention to the forces of free-form radio, long-form rock journalism, or Clash bootleg recordings, many of which are now widely available on the web. This story, which takes its title from the 1981 single “Radio Clash,” includes original interviews with key figures from the New York punk scene. This secret history concludes with an analysis of how we listen to music today and its impact on the written word.

Clash!

Author : Hazel Rose Markus,Alana Conner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101623602

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Clash! by Hazel Rose Markus,Alana Conner Pdf

“If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book.” —Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners? Can women rocket up the corporate ladder without knocking off the men? How can poor kids get ahead when schools favor the rich? As our planet gets smaller, cultural conflicts are becoming fiercer. Rather than lamenting our multicultural worlds, Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner reveal how we can leverage our differences to mend the rifts in our workplaces, schools, and relationships, as well as on the global stage. Provocative, witty, and painstakingly researched, Clash! not only explains who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

Redemption Song

Author : Chris Salewicz
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865479828

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With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock 'n roll icon. The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience to punk. Their eponymous first record and London Calling still rank in Rolling Stone's top-ten best albums of all time, and in 2003 they were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joe Strummer was the Clash's front man, a rock-and-roll hero seen by many as the personification of outlaw integrity and street cool. The political heart of the Clash, Strummer synthesized gritty toughness and poetic sensitivity in a manner that still resonates with listeners, and his untimely death in December 2002 shook the world, further solidifying his iconic status. Salewicz was a friend to Strummer for close to three decades and has covered the Clash's career and the entire punk movement from its inception. He uses his vantage point to write Redemption Song, the definitive biography of Strummer, charting his enormous worldwide success, his bleak years in the wilderness after the Clash's bitter breakup, and his triumphant return to stardom at the end of his life. Salewicz argues for Strummer's place in a long line of protest singers that includes Woody Guthrie, John Lennon, and Bob Marley, and examines by turns Strummer's and punk's ongoing cultural influence.

IGNORE ALIEN ORDERS

Author : TONY. BEESLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0956572790

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Dance of Days

Author : Mark Andersen,Mark Jenkins
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1933354992

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Dance of Days by Mark Andersen,Mark Jenkins Pdf

Updated 2009 edition of this evergreen punk-rock classic!

Last Gang in Town (2015-) #1

Author : Simon Oliver
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T1398900015001

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Last Gang in Town (2015-) #1 by Simon Oliver Pdf

Forget what you know of England, of the 'Land of Hope and Glory.' Instead, try damp and depressing, and embrace this miserable island for what it is. Our story kicks off in 1976: the country coming apart at its flared corduroy seams, a decade after the Great Train Robbery, when British crime has gone decidedly soft in the middle. Time for a new generation of criminals to rise: a band of snotty-nosed heroes driven by destiny and cheap cider, who will strike fear back into the establishment, put art back into crime and crime back into art, and pull off what will become known as the heist of the century. This new series from Simon Oliver (FBP: FEDERAL BUREAU OF PHYSICS) and Rufus Dayglo (Tank Girl) spans three decades, from the punk rock '70s to the decadent '80s and beyond, charting the rise, fall and redemption of a group of bandits that changed the face of the criminal underworld and closed the door on a legacy.

The Clash

Author : Joe Strummer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 1843547880

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The Clash by Joe Strummer Pdf

"This is the first offical book to be created by the band. With unprecedented access to the Clash archive, this landmark publication brings together previously unseen material -- including tour posters, artwork, and photos of the band at home, on stage, in the studio and on the road - with each member telling it like it was, in their own words"--Jacket.

This Day in Music's Guide to the Clash

Author : Malcolm Wyatt
Publisher : This Day in Music's Guide
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1999592743

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This Day in Music's Guide to the Clash by Malcolm Wyatt Pdf

The Clash were the definitive British punk rockers, and arguably the most inspirational. Formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of UK punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, dub, funk, ska and rockabilly, and this is the ultimate companion of the band's rise to fame, from their roots in bands such as the 101'ers to emergence alongside the Sex Pistols, the initial CBS deal, the subsequent early 1977 release of White Riot and the eponymous album that followed, right through to their 1986 disbandment ... and beyond.

Clash Songbook

Author : Clash (Musical group)
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clash (Musical Group)
ISBN : 0860015432

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Clash Songbook by Clash (Musical group) Pdf