We are working our way through the catalogue of The Clash and reflecting on a career charged with authenticity and ranking their albums in order of greatness ...

The band continued expanding into funk and even new wave, but their career spun out quickly with a lineup change and an ...

When they first entered a recording studio, demoing tracks for Polydor in November 1977, it’s unlikely The Clash imagined that, 35 years later, they’d be one of rock’s biggest heritage acts. For a ...

It’s likely a lot of folks thought that a double-album by The Clash was the height of folly ... 1977 self-titled debut and several explosive singles, all of which showed they had the smarts ...

To be sure, London Calling would have almost certainly been The Clash’s most popular album to date, even if “Train in Vain” hadn’t become an unlikely hit single. Punk was already beginning ...

Out of all of the Pistols singles, that was the slowest. If you wanted to attach ‘punk’ to it, it’s not a fast track; it’s laid-back, almost like Booker T & The MGs. I think that’s what makes the ...

Born Nicholas Bowen Headon in 1955 in Bromley (England), he joined the iconic English band from their second album in 1978. When punk erupted in the London capital, anything seemed possible, and ...

A Beastie Boy got arrested; Morrissey played his first solo gig in the U.S.; The Beatles began working on 'The White Album'; ...