The Clash hit record store shelves on April 8, 1977, but wouldn’t come to the United States for two more years. CBS Records, the band’s label, didn’t think the album would sell in the United ...

The result was The Clash, released in 1977 after the band was signed by CBS Records.They made quite a bit of money from the deal, and they put more or less all of it into that debut record. It ...