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"If you stormed in here and said the new record was rubbish, I would probably quit": Joe Strummer's struggle after The Clash
Before his death, Joe Strummer could hardly get arrested. After, he was feted as a rock icon. This is the inside story of the solo years of a punk rock warlord
10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)
The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version
“I don’t think they envisaged the madness and chaos...”: How The Clash started falling apart while shooting their Rock The Casbah video
In the wake of Combat Rock, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones were at loggerheads: The Clash would not survive
“I gave the lyrics to Joe to sing. He said, No, you’ve gotta sing it, they're your lyrics”: The Clash's Paul Simonon on how he wrote the punk icons' defiant classic The Guns Of Brixton
London Calling classic The Guns Of Brixton was Clash bassist's Paul Simonon's first-ever composition
"It was the punk gig of dreams": what happened when The Clash brought Buzzcocks, The Slits and Subway Sect to Manchester
On May 1, 1977, The Clash started their first ever UK tour. A week later they played at the Electric Circus in Manchester, a night that changed the lives of those lucky enough to be there
10 terrible punk albums with one classic song
These punk albums are stinkers that only a mother could truly love, but each features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt
How The Clash made history by visiting some of Belfast's most divided and violent streets
Punk pioneers The Clash were captured visiting a war-torn, troops-heavy Belfast at the height of the Troubles and it cemented their reputation as a result
Remembering the time The Clash turned up in Northern Ireland for a gig, but instead ended up causing a riot
As well as being mistaken for paramilitaries, The Clash's slated 1977 Belfast gig ended up in a kerfuffle that saw punks rioting and the band banned from performing
